Sergey Syrtsov (politikus)

Sergey Syrtsov
Sergey Syrtsov
Серге́й Сырцо́в
	Syrtsov in 1929
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR
	Masa jabatan; 18 May 1929 – 3 November 1930
Perdana Menteri	Alexei Rykov
	Pendahulu; Alexei Rykov Pengganti; Daniil Sulimov
Candidate member of the 16th Politburo
	Masa jabatan; 21 June 1929 – 1 December 1930
Informasi pribadi
Lahir	Sergey Ivanovich Syrtsov; 17 July [K.J.: 5 July] 1893; Slavgorod, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire
Meninggal	10 September 1937 (umur 44); Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Sebab kematian	Execution by firing squad
Kebangsaan	Soviet
Partai politik	RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1913–1918) ; Russian Communist Party (1918–1930)
	Orde Panji Merah ;
	Sunting kotak info • L • B

Sergey Ivanovich Syrtsov^[a] (17 Juli [K.J.: 5 Juli] 1893 – 10 September 1937) adalah seorang politikus dan negarawan Soviet Rusia. Syrtsov paling dikenang karena pernah menjabat sebagai kepala pemerintahan republik RSFS Rusia dari tahun 1929 hingga pemecatannya pada tahun 1930 karena berencana untuk mencopot Joseph Stalin sebagai kepala Partai Partai Komunis Seluruh Serikat (Bolshevik).

Syrtsov ditangkap pada musim semi tahun 1937 selama Pembersihan Besar-besaran dan dieksekusi sekitar lima bulan kemudian.

Biografi

Tahun-tahun awal

Sergey Ivanovich Syrtsov lahir di Slavgorod, Guberniia Ekaterinoslav, Kekaisaran Rusia (sekarang bagian dari Ukraina) pada tanggal 17 Juli 1895 (5 Juli Old Style)hingga keluarga kelas menengah dari ekstraksi etnis Rusia.^[1] Ayah Syrtsov, Ivan Syrtsov, adalah seorang pegawai pemerintah setempat.^[2]

Syrtsov kuliah di universitas di St. Petersburg di Universitas Politeknik Negeri Saint Petersburg di mana ia menjadi aktif secara politik, bergabung dengan Partai Bolshevik pada tahun 1913.^[1]Pada tahun 1916 karena aktivitas politiknya bertabrakan dengan Okhrana (polisi rahasia) dan Syrtsov ditangkap, dikeluarkan dari sekolah, dan dikirim ke pengasingan internal di wilayah Verkolensk di Irkutsk, sebelah timur Siberia.^[3] Ia dibebaskan dari pengasingan setelah Revolusi Februari tahun 1917, yang ditandai dengan pembebasan tahanan politik.^[4]

Syrtsov adalah peserta aktif dalam Revolusi Oktober di mana kaum Bolshevik menggulingkan Pemerintahan Sementara Rusia dari Alexander Kerensky, mengepalai Komite Revolusi Militer lokal di kota Rostov-on- Don selama pemberontakan.^[4]

Pemimpin Bolshevik Provinsi

Pada masa Revolusi Bolshevik pada bulan November 1917, Syrtsov bermarkas di Rostov-on-Don. Sebagai anggota komite revolusioner militer regional, ia memimpin ekspedisi hukuman terhadap Don Cossack yang menentang Bolshevik. Pada bulan Maret 1918, ia diangkat sebagai wakil ketua Dewan Komisaris Rakyat Republik Don Soviet yang berumur pendek. ^[5] Ia ditunjuk menjadi anggota komite yang bertanggung jawab atas "Decossackization" wilayah Don pada bulan Desember 1918 dan berpartisipasi dalam aktivitas untuk memecah pemukiman pedesaan Don Cossack karena permusuhan mereka terhadap rezim Bolshevik.^[4]Selama Perang Saudara Rusia, ia menjabat sebagai komisaris politik di Angkatan Darat ke-12 Tentara Merah, dari tahun 1918 hingga 1919.^[1]^[4] Dia terluka selama pertempuran dan dianugerahi Order of the Red Banner.^[4] Pada tahun 1920, ia diangkat menjadi sekretaris komite partai provinsi Odesa.

Pada tahun-tahun setelah revolusi, Syrtsov mengambil posisi yang menempatkan dirinya di sayap kiri Partai Bolshevik, termasuk menentang Perjanjian Brest-Litovsk pada bulan Maret 1918.^[4] Ia menjadi delegasi pada Kongres ke-10 RKP(b) pada bulan Maret 1921, di mana ia mendukung Leon Trotsky, melawan Lenin dalam perselisihan mengenai peran serikat pekerja. Dia juga berpartisipasi bersama dengan delegasi lain dalam pertemuan tersebut dalam menumpas Pemberontakan Kronstadt.^[4] This experience moved Syrtsov in a more moderate direction economically, and he became an early and vocal supporter of the New Economic Policy (NEP) advanced by Lenin over radical opposition from within Bolshevik ranks.^[4] After the Congress, Lenin intervened to secure Syrtsov's appointment as head of the secretary of the communist party in the Donbas region, against opposition from leaders of the Ukrainian party because of Syrtsov's previous support, which he promised to renounce.^[6]

National party functionary

In 1921 Syrtsov was moved to Moscow to work in the expanding state bureaucracy.^[4] He was made head of the Communist Party's Records and Assignments Section (Uchraspred) in July 1921, an institution which was dedicated to the task of maintaining party personnel files.^[4] Syrtsov established a system of accumulating individual records on file cards and played a key role in the establishment of the nomenklatura system of appointment of trusted officials to low level office by central authority.^[7]

Following the appointment of Joseph Stalin as General Secretary in April 1922, Uchraspred's work was carefully supervised by Stalin's Secretariat and a close working relationship between Syrtsov and Stalin was developed for the first time.^[7] Syrtsov attended meetings of the party's Organization Bureau (regarded as the bulwark of Stalin's growing factional strength) and participated with Stalin in the appointment of key personnel.^[7] The shared agenda of the two in this period was emphasized by the fact that Stalin and Syrtsov shared adjoining offices in the Kremlin.^[7]

Syrtsov was moved in 1924 to the position of chief of the Central Committee's Agitation and Propaganda department, later becoming a member of the Presidium of the Communist Academy and editor of the VKP(b) Central Committee's magazine, Communist Revolution.^[8]

Syrtsov became the first secretary of the Communist organization in the Urals district of Siberia in 1926, remaining in that position until 1929.^[9] During the grain crisis of 1927–28, Stalin traveled to the region in 1928 to spur lagging grain deliveries to state procurement agencies.^[10] Syrtsov was found to be an effective ally of Moscow in the exertion of coercion against the peasantry in what came to be known as the Ural-Siberian method of grain procurement, which was based upon use of Article 107 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR in charging peasants as "speculatorsa" for refusing to sell grain to state authorities despite the inadequate purchase prices being offered.

In the aftermath of the so-called "extraordinary measures" employed the 1928 grain procurement Syrtsov was a consistent supporter of Stalin's proposal for "total collectivization" and the "liquidation of kulaks as a class" in the Siberian Oblast Committee of the VKP(b) as a long-term solution to the problem of inadequate state grain collections.^[9] Syrtsov's loyalty on the question of collectivization of agriculture was rewarded in 1929 when he was returned from Novosibirsk to Moscow to assume chairmanship of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR^[10] Syrtsov replaced collectivization opponent Alexey Rykov in this position, and seems to have been tapped to ultimately replacing Rykov as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (CPC) of the entire nation.^[11]

In connection with the move Syrtsov was made a candidate member of the Politburo of the by now renamed All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) [VKP(b)], a move which likely emphasized the designs of Stalin and his associates to promote Syrtsov as Chairman of the All-Union CPC.^[11] Syrtsov thereby became the youngest member of the Politburo both in terms of age and duration of party membership.^[12] He was also made a member of the Council of Labor and Defense (STO), a key economic planning and distribution agency, in July 1929.^[13]

Syrtsov-Lominadze Affair of 1930

Syrtsov's tenure as head of the Russian government proved to be brief. The campaign for total collectivization of agriculture in the USSR proved to be dysfunctionally violent, marked by expropriations, forced deportations, and armed revolt. These excesses moved the decisive and independently minded Syrtsov into opposition, gathering like-minded individuals in the upper ranks of the Communist Party apparatus characterized by historian James Hughes as an "amateurish political plot to oust Stalin" for the violence and economic irrationality.^[2] In this effort Syrtsov was joined by fellow member of the VKP(b) Central Committee and Secretary of the Transcaucasian District Party Committee Vissarion "Beso" Lominadze and Central Control Commission member Lazar Shatskin, an important figure in the Communist International of Youth (KIM).^[14]

The so-called Syrtsov-Lominadze Group planned to make their restructuring proposal at the forthcoming joint plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission, scheduled for October 1930.^[14] The group's campaign was revealed to Stalin and his group early in the organizing process, just after it had moved from critical commentary in a private group setting to the circulation of anti-Stalin literature and the attempt to attract officials from the Soviet governmental and party apparatus to its cause.^[2]

Srytsov, Lominadze, Shatskin, and their co-thinkers were expelled from the VKP(b), with the plenum of the CC/CCC moved back to December.^[14] This marked the first time that members of these two leading bodies of the VKP(b) were expelled from the party without consent of the Central Committee itself.^[15]

Syrtsov was replaced as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR by Daniil Sulimov, his successor as secretary of the Urals Oblast Committee of the VKP(b).^[15]

Arrest and execution

Following his expulsion from the Communist Party, Syrtsov went into economic work, managing a munitions plant.^[8] In an unknown date, he joined a secret opposition group with Lominadze as well as Jan Sten. This group then joined a larger conspiratorial alliance in 1932 with Leon Trotsky, zinovievists and some unnamed rightists. In a letter from Trotsky's son, they were referred to as the 'Sten–Lominadze group'. Pierre Broué wrote that the bloc most likely dissolved in early 1933, because some of its members were arrested and Kamenev and Zinoviev had joined Stalin again.^[16]

Syrtsov was arrested on 19 April 1937 during the Great Purge. Following protracted interrogation he was sentenced to death on 10 September 1937 and executed in Moscow that same day.^[17]

Syrtsov was posthumously rehabilitated (exonerated) by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 28 December 1957.^[18]

Notes

^ bahasa Rusia: Серге́й Ива́нович Сырцо́в

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c James Hughes, "Patrimonialism and the Stalinist System: The Case of S.I. Syrtsov," Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 48, no. 4 (June 1996), pp. 552.
^ Hughes, "Patrimonialism and the Stalinist System," pp. 552–553.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Hughes, "Patrimonialism and the Stalinist System," p. 553.
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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hughes, "Patrimonialism and the Stalinist System," p. 554.
^ ^a ^b S.A. Pankov, "Sergei Ivanovich Syrtsov," Историческая энциклопедия Сибири (Historical Encyclopedia of Siberia), 2009.
^ ^a ^b Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party: A Study in the Technology of Power. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1959; p. 15.
^ ^a ^b Avtorkhanov, Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party, p. 18.
^ ^a ^b Avtorkhanov, Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party, p. 189.
^ Avtorkhanov, Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party, p. 190.
^ R.W. Davies, et al. (eds.), Soviet Government Officials, 1922–41: A Handlist. Birmingham, England: Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, 1989; p. 387.
^ ^a ^b ^c Avtorkhanov, Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party, p. 191.
^ ^a ^b Avtorkhanov, Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party, p. 192.
^ "Pierre Broué: The "Bloc" of the Oppositions against Stalin (January 1980)". www.marxists.org. Diakses tanggal 2020-08-07.
^ "Жертвы политического террора в СССР". Lists.memo.ru. Diakses tanggal 2013-06-12.
^ "Syrtsov, Sergei," Martirolog rasstreliannykh v Moskve i Moskovskoi oblasti (Memorial of those shot in Moscow and Moscow oblast), Sakharov Center, www.sakharov-center.ru/