Isidoro Acevedo (communist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish politician
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Place of Birth: Lluanco / Luanco, Asturias, Spain
About Isidoro Acevedo (communist)
- Isidoro Acevedo (born Isidoro RodrĂguez González; 2 January 1867 in Luanco, Spain – 1952 in Moscow, Russia) was a Spanish politician and activist who participated in the founding of the Communist Party of Spain. Acevedo began working as a typographer's apprentice at the age of thirteen in Madrid, where he had moved with his family three years before.
- In 1898, he moved to Santander, where he became president of the Socialist Federation.
- Because he had a major role within the party, highlighted by his debate as a socialist representative against anarchist Emilio Carral, he was called upon by the socialists of Bilbao to be the editor of the newspaper La Lucha de Clases (Spanish: The Class Struggle).
- He was imprisoned several times because of his articles. In 1914, he returned to Asturias, where he edited La Aurora Social.
- He was arrested in 1917 for his participation in the revolutionary strike of that year.
- In 1921, as a delegate of the Asturian Socialist Federation, he participated in the Socialist Congress of Madrid.
- There, along with other supporters of the Third International, he founded the Communist Party of Spain. After founding the publication La Aurora Roja and traveling to Russia as a representative of Spain's Communist Party in the congresses of the Third National, he gave various lectures throughout Spain.
- These experiences led to his book Impresiones de un viaje a Rusia (Spanish: Impressions of a Trip to Russia), published in Oviedo in 1923.
- He also published a novel in 1930 called Los topos, in which he criticized Manuel Llaneza, a socialist mining leader.
- With the rise to power of Miguel Primo de Rivera, he was jailed for a few months and returned to Madrid.
- After the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile in Russia.
- There, he held the position of president of International Red Aid until he died in 1952.
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