Yakov Sverdlov
| 1885-06-03 - 1919-03-16 |
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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Party membership
- Bolsheviks (1903-08-01 - 1919-03-16) — Bolshevik faction from the 1903 RSDLP split; party Secretariat chairman
