Yakov Yakovlev

Yakov Arkadyevich Yakovlev (real name: Epstein; Russian: Я́ков Арка́дьевич Я́ковлев, 9 June 1896, Grodno - 29 July 1938) was a Soviet politician.

Yakov Yakovlev (1929)

Yakovlev was a Soviet Communist of Jewish family who joined the Bolsheviks in 1913. In January 1923 he led the attack on Alexander Bogdanov, criticizing him for being a Menshevik in Pravda.[1] From 1929 he served as People's Commissar for Agriculture for the forced collectivisation. In 1936 he appeared as a witness in the first Moscow trial.[2] Arrested on October 12, 1937, and sentenced to death by the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR. He was executed on July 29, 1938. Posthumously rehabilitated on 5 January 1957.[3]

References
  1. Biggart, John (1989), Alexander Bogdanov, Left-Bolshevism and the Proletkult 1904 - 1932, University of East Anglia
  2. Moscow Trials 1936 August 20 (morning session); EXAMINATION OF THE WITNESS YAKOVLEV
  3. Trotsky, Léon (1970). Writings of Leon Trotsky: 1937-38. Pathfinder Press.
  • Yakov Yakovlev at Handbook on history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898–1991


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