Eduard Solomonovich Goltsman ( 1882 , Krošniewice market town of Warsaw province - August 25, 1936 , Moscow ) - Russian revolutionary, member of the Left Opposition , person involved in the First Moscow process .
| Eduard Solomonovich Goltsman | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1882 |
| Place of Birth | Krosniewice market town, Warsaw province |
| Date of death | August 25, 1936 |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire of the  the USSR |
| Occupation | |
| The consignment | RSDLP (b) , VKP (b) |
Biography
Born in the town of Krosniewice, Warsaw province. In the revolutionary movement - since the beginning of 1900; since 1903 - member of the RSDLP , Bolshevik .
After the October Revolution, he was engaged in economic work. In 1926 - 1927 , according to the testimony of L. D. Trotsky , “secretly sympathized with the opposition ”, but, since he was not an active oppositionist, he avoided expulsion from the party in 1927 . He worked in the People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade of the USSR.
In 1932, I. N. Smirnov was a member of an underground organization ; since he often went on business trips abroad, he was one of those through whom Smirnov maintained contact with Trotsky and who informed the editors of the Opposition Bulletin the latest news from the USSR. So, in November 1932, in the form of a “Letter from Moscow”, one of his stories was published about what the Soviet press was silent about: the famine that had begun, especially strong in Ukraine , about a group of “right-wingers” spreading their platform in the party (see. "The Union of Marxist-Leninists ") and others. [1] [2] .
In January 1933 , when 89 members of the organization were arrested in the case of the so-called “counter-revolutionary Trotskyist group of Smirnov I.N. et al.” [3] [4] , Goltsman was among those whom the OGPU could not be identified, and escaped arrest. Nevertheless, he was later transferred to another job not related to foreign business trips: in 1936, he was deputy director of the State Theater Costume Factory.
April 27, 1936 was arrested. At the time of his arrest, Holtzman discovered a double-bottom suitcase containing 13 issues of the “Opposition Bulletin” dating back to 1931-1932; a few months later, this suitcase became one of the main "evidence" at the First Moscow trial [5] .
Doom
In August 1936 he was transferred as a defendant to the First Moscow trial - in the case of the so-called “anti-Soviet united Trotsky-Zinoviev center” [6] . Like all old Bolsheviks in this process, he categorically refused to acknowledge his connection with the Gestapo (“it turned out to be powerless to bring them to such disgusting self-defamation of the GPU ,” L. Trotsky commented " [7] ); together with I. N. Smirnov, unlike most of the defendants, refused to admit his involvement in terrorist activities. Observing the process of publication in the Soviet press, Trotsky noted Goltsman as "the most stingy of the defendant’s confession" " [7] ; he only admitted that he transmitted Trotsky’s terrorist directives - “the GPU could not deviate from this minimum” [7] . Trotsky's “open letter” appeared in the process as a “directive”, published back in March 1932 in one of those issues of the “Bulletin of the Opposition” that was found in Holtzman's suitcase; in the letter, Trotsky called "finally to fulfill Lenin's last urgent covenant - to remove Stalin" " [6] .
August 24, 1936, like all the defendants, was sentenced to death; the only one of all convicted after the sentencing did not appeal. Shot on August 25, 1936; the ashes are buried in the territory of the Don monastery.
Rehabilitated July 13, 1988 by the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the USSR.
Notes
- ↑ V. Rogovin. 1937
- ↑ Letter from Moscow ( Bulletin of the Opposition (Bolshevik-Leninists), N 31 )
- ↑ V. Rogovin . Power and opposition.
- ↑ Bulletin of the Central Committee of the CPSU. 1991. N 6. S. 82.
- ↑ Note by the Commission of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU to the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU on the results of the investigation into the causes of repression and circumstances of political processes of the 30s
- ↑ 1 2 V. Rogovin. 1937. Chapter II.
- ↑ 1 2 3 L. Trotsky. Crimes of Stalin . M. Publishing house of humanitarian literature. 1994