Isidore Gukovsky
Isidor Gukovsky Исидор Гуковский | |
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People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR | |
In office 21 March – 16 August 1918 | |
Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
Preceded by | Vyacheslav Menzhinsky |
Succeeded by | Nikolay Krestinsky |
Personal details | |
Born | 1871 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Died | 1921 (aged 49-50) Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
Political party | RSDLP (1898–1903) RSDLP (Mensheviks) (1903–1917) Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1921) |
Isidor Emmanuilovich Gukovsky (Russian: Исидор Эммануилович Гуковский, 1871–1921) was a Russian revolutionary who was a People's Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR following the Russian Revolution.
Isidor was the son of a merchant, who became a chemist's assistant. In 1898, he started participating in the Group of Workers Revolutionaries. He a later became a member of the Menshevik faction of the RSDLP. He was imprisoned for inciting the Izhorskiye workers to strike. In 1904 he went to Baku, and used the name Theodor Izmaylovich for his political work. By 1906 he was secretary of the newspaper New Life. He then went to Odessa before travelling abroad. In 1907, he returned to Russia, was arrested, again brought to trial but acquitted (1908). He settled in Moscow. After the October Revolution he became a Bolshevik and was appointed finance minister, then plenipotentiary representative of Russia in Estonia. In autumn 1921, he died of pneumonia.
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