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1893-1936
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| 1893 |
Born in the village of Karchevan in the Megrinsky region of Armenia. Both parents were poor peasants. |
| 1902 |
Sent to his uncle in Baku. |
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Studies at the Commercial School in Baku; twice expelled for participating in revolutionary student circles. |
| 1912 |
Joins Bolshevik Party in Baku. |
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Finishes Commercial School in Baku. |
| 1914 |
Moves to Moscow |
| 1915 |
Continues studies at the Moscow Commercial Institute. |
| 1915-1917 |
Works in Moscow in the Moskvoretskaia organization |
| 1917 January |
Elected secretary of the Moscow Party Committee. |
| 1917 May 9 |
Organizes a major strike in Moscow. |
| 1917 May-June |
Helps found the Union of Working-Class Youth "III International." |
| 1917 September |
Travels to front and conducts revolutionary activity among the soldiers. |
| 1917 November 1-2 |
At army conference elected as one of ten representatives to the II All-Russian Congress of Soviets. |
| 1918 June-October |
During Civil War, member of Krylenko's staff in Red Army. |
| 1918-1919 |
Elected member of VTsIk [All-Russian Central executive Committee] |
| 1919-1920 |
Member of Mossovet |
| 1919-1921 |
Organizes first Workers' Courses [RabFak] at former Moscow Commercial Institute |
| 1921 March 8-16 |
Delegate to Xth Party Congress. |
| 1920-1921 |
Member of the Bureau of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Provincial Committee |
| 1922-23 |
Main editor of the journal, "Under the Banner of Marxism." |
| 1923, 15 October |
Signs the "Letter of the 46," throwing support behind Trotsky's policies. [English translation: pdf file] |
| 1924, June 9 |
One of the founding members of the Society of Militant Materialists and member of its presidium, which also included Bukharin, Deborin, Luppol, Nevsky, Pokrovsky and Timiriazev. |
| mid-1920s- early 30s |
Researcher at the Institute of Marx and Engels |
| 1927 May |
Signs Letter of the 84, document of the Joint Opposition |
| 1927 December 18 |
Expelled at XVth Party Congress along with many other oppositionists. |
| 1928 January |
Arrested for "anti-Soviet agitation" and exiled to Biisk in Siberia. Signs "Appeal of the Deportees," a letter from 20 Oppositionists appealing their expulsion from the party to the upcoming Sixth Congress of the Comintern. |
| 1928 December |
Exiled to Kazan. |
| 1929 October |
Signs letter of Smirnov and Boguslavsky stating that they are leaving the Opposition. |
| 1930 June 9 |
Reinstated in Party |
| 1933 January 15 |
Arrested and sent to Semipalatinsk. |
| 1933 January 17 |
Expelled from Party again. Accused of hiding the existence of the Riutin-Slepkov group from the Party. |
| 1934 October 23 |
Reinstated in Party. |
| 1935 May 22 |
Expelled from Party for "counter-revolutionary Trotskyist work" [Document] |
| 1935 May 26 |
Exiled for 5 years to Aktiubinsk in Kazakhstan. |
| 1936 July 3 |
Arrested for belonging to the "Unified Trotsky-Zinoviev Center" |
| 1936 August 19-24 |
Defendant at the "Trial of the Sixteen," along with Zinoviev and Kamenev. Declared guilty and shot on August 24. |
| 1988 June 13 |
Supreme Court of the USSR rescinds the sentence of 1936 and closes the case against Ter-Vaganian for lack of criminal activity. |
| 1988 November 5 |
Reinstated in Party posthumously by Party Control Committee. [Document] |
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