Vladimir Smirnov (Politician) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Smirnov, who was closely associated with Nikolai Bukharin, was a political commissar in the Red army and represented the Left Socialist-Revolutionary Party and was the main spokesman of the Military opposition. He was a member of the editorial board of Kommunist, the organ of the Petrograd Committee of the party. Years before the October Revolution he pushed for a more militant party tactics, much to the annoyance of Lenin. He became the finances director of the governing body of the Moscow oblast, Sovnarkom, which executed wide powers and had high ambitions of local rule, although it was abolished already in June, 1918. His attempts at forming similar bodies where short-lived.