Viktor Nogin
Viktor Pavlovich Nogin (Russian Виктор Павлович Ногин ) (* 2 Februarjul / February 14 1878greg in Moscow, .. † May 22, 1924 ) was a Soviet revolutionary, politician and first People's Commissar for Trade and Industry after the October Revolution.
Biography
Before the Revolution
Nogin, the son of a shopkeeper in Moscow, had acquired his knowledge in a self-study. The young workers joined in 1898 the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia ( SAPR ) in and was active in Saint Petersburg. Several times he was subsequently arrested and deported. In April 1903, he escaped from exile and then held on abroad. Months later, he returned to Russia and he was then the liaison to the journal Iskra.
Revolutions in 1917 and thereafter
After that he was from October 1917, the first People's Commissar for Trade and Industry in the Council of People's Commissars in the government under Lenin. Soon, there was a significant factional dispute on the participation of other revolutionary groups in the work of the government and executive bodies.
On November 17, 1917 Nogin, Kamenev, Zinoviev, Rykov and Miliutin resigned from the government, headed by Lenin as People's Commissars and / or from the Central Committee back with the explanation:
"We are of the opinion that it is necessary to form a socialist government from all responsible parties in the Soviet. We believe that only the formation of such a government can secure the achievements of the heroic struggle <...> The alternative to this is in our opinion a purely Bolshevik government that can only maintain itself by political terror. "
After that Nogin could not hold on in the upper echelons of the Communist Party, while Zinoviev and Kamenev and Rykov, and a little later Miliutin only under Stalin from their positions and lost their lives in the 1930s.
From October 25th 1917 to November 13, 1917, he is still for few time, the first chairman of the Executive Committee ( mayor since 1991) of Moscow after the revolution.
After this short time in government, he sat down in November 1917 for the development of textile industry. 1923, therefore, he also visited the United States to effect a cooperation of industry sectors. He introduced the possibility mediating talks with the U.S. President Coolidge.
Honors
- Nogin was buried in the necropolis near the Kremlin wall on Red Square in Moscow.
- The city Noginsk (formerly Bogorodsk ) and Rajon Noginsk in the Moscow Oblast - 50 km east of Moscow - was named after him.
- According to him, a station between two lines of the Moscow Metro was named to the same place ( Ploshchad Nogina; since 1990, the station is but Kitai -Gorod ).