Stetskiv Alexey

Stetskii Alexei Ivanovich (3.2.1896, s Borovschina Viazemsky district of Smolensk province - 1.8.1938), party activist. The son of an official. He studied at the Petrograd Polytechnical Institute (not finished). Educated at the Institute of Red Professors (1923). In 1915 he joined the RSDLP, Bolshevik. Conducted Party work in Petrograd, a member of the student faction Committee RSDLP. In 1917 members of the Vyborg district committee RSDLP (b) (Petrograd). Since 1918 the Red Army political commissar. Since 1923 he worked in the system of Party and state control. After the death of VI. Lenin active supporter of NI. Bukharin. After the defeat of Bukharin in the fight against I.V. Stalin moved toward the latter. In 1924-27 a member of the CCC, CPSU (b). Since 1925 editor of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda". In 1926-27 Head. Divisions of the North-West Bureau of the Central Committee of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU (b). Since 1927 member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). Since 1930 Head. agitpropotdelom CC, CPSU (b). In 1933, a member of the Organizing Committee of the Soviet Writers' Union, led by nominally was Gorky, Ho all cases were in the hands of C. Managed promotional campaigns in the 1930. Under his leadership, organized persecution of Trotskyists, Zinovievites, "wreckers", fists and prokulak "etc.. Since 1934 both the chief editor of "Bolshevik". On 10.2.1934 a member of the Organizing Bureau of the Central Committee. In 1937 was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Organizer "popular" support of Stalin's policy of mass repression, etc.. In April. 1,938 arrested. 1/8/1938 sentenced to death. Shot. In 1956, rehabilitated and restored in the party.