Lazar Yuryevich Schmidt (1896-1952) - Soviet party leader, journalist.
| Lazarus Schmidt | |
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| Date of Birth | 1896 |
| Place of Birth | Bobruisk |
| Date of death | August 4, 1952 |
| Place of death | Abez camp |
| Citizenship | the USSR |
| Occupation | journalist |
In 1914-1917 he was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (he spent all this time in exile in the Narym Territory ), from February 1917 to June-July 1919 the Left Socialist Revolutionary . In 1917 he worked in the Union of Cooperators in Kiev and in the Socialist-Revolutionary newspaper " Struggle ". In January-March 1918, an employee of the newspaper Znamya Truda , secretary of the publishing house of the Central Committee of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Then, in Smolensk , Kiev (secretary of the Izvestia Central Executive Committee of Ukraine), Omsk (where he joined the RCP (b) in January 1920). In 1920-1921, the editorial secretary and member of the editorial board of the newspaper " Soviet Siberia ".
In July-October 1921, assistant to the Foreign Department of the Cheka . From November 1921 to April 1931 the head. department of literature, art and bibliography of the newspaper " Pravda ", executive secretary and member of the editorial board of the magazine " Spotlight ". From June 1930 to December 1931 deputy. executive editor of the newspaper " Working Moscow ".
Since 1929, a member of the Board of the Moscow branch of the All-Russian Union of Writers (in this capacity he was one of the main organizers of the campaign against Pilnyak and Zamyatin ). In January-May 1932, the editor of the Federation Publishing House, and after his conversion to the Sovetskaya Literatura Publishing House, took over there as chief editor, deputy chairman of the board and chairman of the editorial board.
From October 1933 to June 1936 he worked in the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Committee (instructor, deputy head of the department of culture and propaganda, head of the department of print and publishing). Then he returned to Moscow to work in the Press Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.), But in October 1936 he was expelled from the party for membership in the Trotskyist organization. February 10, 1950 sentenced to 10 years. Died in the Abez ITL.
Literature
- Galushkin A. “The Case of Pilnyak and Zamyatin.” Preliminary results of the investigation // New about Zamyatin. Collection of materials. - M .: MIK, 1997. - S. 107-109 . - ISBN 5-87902-080-0 .