Yakov Sverdlov

June 3, 1885 – March 16, 1919

Bolshevik leader; chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK), the Soviet head of state, 1917-1919. Key organizer of the October Revolution and the Red Terror; died in the 1919 influenza pandemic.

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Affiliations

Party membership

• Aug 1, 1903 – Mar 16, 1919 Bolsheviks Bolshevik faction from the 1903 RSDLP split; party Secretariat chairman
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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Dissolution of the Russian Constituent Assembly