Pēteris Stučka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pēteris Stučka

Soviet politician

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1865

Place of Birth: Livonia Governorate

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1932

Profession: writer, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Pēteris Stučka

  • Peteris Stucka, sometimes spelt Pyotr Ivanovich Stuchka (Russian: ???? ???´????? ???´???, German: Peter Stutschka (in contemporary writings); b.
  • July 26 [O.S.
  • July 14] 1865 – 25 January 1932), was a Latvian jurist and communist politician who served as the leader of Bolshevik government in Latvian SSR during the Latvian War of Independence. Stucka was one of the leaders of the New Current movement in the late 19th century, a prolific writer and translator, an editor of major Latvian and Russian socialist and communist newspapers and periodicals, a prominent jurist and educator, and the first president of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
  • Stucka's wife, Dora Pliekšane (1870–1950), was the sister of the Latvian poet Rainis (Janis Pliekšans), with whom Stucka shared a room during their law studies at St.
  • Petersburg University.The Latvian socialists split at the turn of the twentieth century.
  • Stucka, a member of Lenin's inner circle, believed that the goals of global communism were more important than cultural identity..
  • Rainis, Stucka's brother-in-law, supported socialism, but stressed that national culture was also important.
  • Although Rainis initially supported a free Latvia within a free Russia, he would later support an independent Latvian nation.
  • During Latvia's War of Independence, 1918-1920, Stucka and his army of Latvian and Russian soldiers was defeated by the Latvian provisional government.
  • Despite having the initial support of many Latvians, he lost this by breaking his promise to provide land to individuals, supporting collective farms.In the USSR during the 1920s, Stucka was one of the main Soviet legal theoreticians who promoted the "revolutionary" or "proletarian" model of socialist legality.After his death in 1932, Stucka's remains were interred amongst those of other Communist dignitaries in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, near Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square.

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