Martyn Liadov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian revolutionary
Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1872
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Date of Death: 06-Jan-1947
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Martyn Liadov
- Martyn Nikolaevich Liadov (1872–1947) (pseudonym of Martyn Nikolaevich Mandel’shtam) was a Bolshevik and Vperedist. Liadov was first drawn to the populist Narodnik movement in Moscow in 1891.
- By 1893 he was involved in founding the Moscow Workers’ Union.
- Following his arrest in 1895 he was exiled to Verkhoiansk two years later.
- In 1902 he joined the Saratov Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP).
- However he emigrated in 1903, and attended the Second Congress of the RSDLP, joining the Iskra faction.
- The Central Committee of the party offered him a post following the Congress and in 1904 he attended the meeting of 22 Bolsheviks in Geneva where he was elected to the Bureau of the Committees of the Majority.
- He then attended the International Socialist Congress, Amsterdam 1904 as a Bolshevik delegate.During the 1905 Revolution, Liadov fought at the barricades in Moscow and served as a member of the Moscow Committee of the RSDLP.
- He served as a delegate to the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Party Congresses.
- Between 1909 and 1911 he sided with the Otzovisty faction, and moved to Baku in 1911.
- In 1917 he was deputy chairman of the Baku Soviet and now sided with the Mensheviks.
- He took control of the newspaper Izvestiia Bakinskogo soveta.
- From 1918 to 1920 he was active in Georgia, only returning to Moscow in 1920.
- He was then readmitted into the Bolshevik Party and served on the Supreme Council of the National Economy.From 1923 to 1929 Liadov was rector of the Sverdlov Communist University.
- Then he headed Glavnauka, but in 1930 he was appointed director of the Archive of the October Revolution and served as a member of the academic boards of the Lenin Institute and of Istpart.
- He attended the Twelfth through Sixteenth Party Congresses, becoming a member of the Central Auditing Commission at the Fifteenth Party Congress.
- Liadov was also a candidate member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.
- His history of the party, first published in 1906-07, was reissued in 1923-26.
- Liadov retired with a special pension in 1932.
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