Jānis Rudzutaks
| Jānis Rudzutaks Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак |
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| People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate | |
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In office 9 October 1931 – 11 February 1934 |
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| Premier | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Preceded by | Andrey Andreyev |
| Succeeded by | Post abolished |
| People's Commissar for Railways | |
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In office 2 February 1924 – 11 June 1930 |
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| Premier | Alexey Rykov |
| Preceded by | Felix Dzerzhinsky |
| Succeeded by | Moisei Rukhimovich |
| Full member of the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th Politburo | |
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In office 23 July 1926 – 26 May 1937 |
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| Candidate member of the 12th, 13th, 14th Politburo | |
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In office 26 April 1923 – 23 July 1926 |
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| Full member of the 12th Secretariat | |
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In office 26 April 1923 – 2 February 1924 |
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3 August 1887 Kuldīga, Latvia, Russian Empire |
| Died | 29 June 1938 (aged 50) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Jānis Rudzutaks (Russian: Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак; 15 August (3 August old style) 1887 – 29 July 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician.
Rudzutaks was born in the Kuldīga district of the Courland Governorate (present-day Kursīši parish, Saldus municipality, Latvia), the son of a farmhand. He started work as swineherd after two years at parish school, but in 1903, at the age of 16, ran away to Riga, where he worked in a factory. Two years later, he joined Latvian Social Democratic Labour Party. In 1907, Rudzutaks was arrested because of his political views and was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor. He served a part of his sentence in Riga and was then transferred to Butyrka prison in Moscow. Rudzutaks was released after the February Revolution of 1917.
After his release, Rudzutaks served in various positions in the RCP(b) All-Russia Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the trade unions. As head of the State Water Transport Administration, in 1918-19, he organised the emergency of food supplies along the Volga, to Moscow, to enable the city to function during the first months civil war. In November 1919, he was posted to Tashkent as a member of the Turkestan Commission, in charge of imposing communist rule in Central Asia. In March 1920, he was elected to the Central Committee of the RCP (b). In November 1920, he was appointed Secretary of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. In that role, he supported Vladimir Lenin's position both against the Workers' Opposition, who wanted to put the unions in control of industry, and the left, led by Leon Trotsky, who proposed incorporating the unions in the state apparatus. At the Tenth Congress of the RCP(b), which was dominated by arguments over the future of the unions, he was re-elected to the Central Committee with 467 votes - nine more than Josif Stalin.
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