Jūlijs Daniševskis

Jūlijs Kārlis Daniševskis (Russian: Карл Юлий Христианович Данишевский, Karl Yuri Hristianovich Danishevsky; 15 May 1884, Doblen County – 8 January 1938, Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast), alias Hermanis, was a Latvian Marxist and professional revolutionary. He was a member of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Social Democracy of the Latvian Territory and also of the Revolutionary War Council of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1918). Daniševskis was the deputy leader of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic under Pēteris Stučka's leadership.[1]

Jūlijs Daniševskis in 1910

Arrest and death

During the Great Purge, as a part of the so-called "Latvian Operation", he was arrested by the NKVD on 16 July 1937. After being convicted by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 8 January 1938, on charges of "participation in the counterrevolutionary terrorist organisation". Daniševskis was shot on 8 January 1938, at the Kommunarka shooting ground, near Moscow. He was rehabilitated on 18 July 1956 by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR.[2]

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References
  1. Purs, Aldis; Plakans, Andrejs (2017). Historical Dictionary of Latvia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 86. ISBN 9781538102213.
  2. Smele, Jonathan D. (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781442252813.
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