Nikolai Meshcheryakov
Nikolai Leonidovich Meshcheryakov (Russian: Николай Леонидович Мещеряков; 9 March [O. 25 February] 1865 – 3 April 1942) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet historian of literature, newspaper editor and head of the Main Administration for Literary and Publishing Affairs (Glavlit) under the People's Commissariat for Education of Russian SFSR in the 1920s. Meshcheryakov was born in Ryazan Governorate. His political career started off in Narodnya Volya where he learnt conspiratorial techniques, before turning to Marxism and becoming a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and later becoming aligned with its Bolshevik wing.
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Nikolai Meshcheryakov
Альбом по истории ВКП(б) 1926. · Public domain
- Born
- 1865 · Zaraysk.
- Died
- 1942 · Kazan.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russian Empire
- Occupation
- publisher · writer · opinion journalist · censor · historian · revolutionary
- Education
- University of Liège
- Languages
- Russian
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Nikolai Leonidovich Meshcheryakov (Russian: Николай Леонидович Мещеряков; 9 March [O. 25 February] 1865 – 3 April 1942) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet historian of literature, newspaper editor and head of the Main Administration for Literary and Publishing Affairs (Glavlit) under the People's Commissariat for Education of Russian SFSR in the 1920s. Meshcheryakov was born in Ryazan Governorate. His political career started off in Narodnya Volya where he learnt conspiratorial techniques, before turning to Marxism and becoming a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and later becoming aligned with its Bolshevik wing.
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Born at Zaraysk in 1865, died in Kazan in 1942.
Nikolai Meshcheryakov studied at University of Liège. The recorded working language is Russian. Positions recorded include editor-in-chief.
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- 1.Maguire, Robert A. Red virgin soil : Soviet literature in the 1920s. North Western University Press. 2000. 978-0810117419.
- 2.McKnight, David. Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage. 2012.
- 3.Krupskaya, Nadezhda. Reminiscences of Lenin. 1933.
- 4.Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. Beginning of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia issue.
- 5.Autobiography.
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