Zmicier Zhylunovich
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Zmicier Khvedarovich Zhylunovich (Belarusian-lacinka: Źmicier Žyłunovič, Belarusian-Cyrillic alphabet: Зьміцер Жылуновіч, transliterated from Russian: "Dmitri Fyodorovich Zhilunovich") (October 13, 1887 – April 11, 1937) was a Belarusian poet, writer and journalist, known under pen name Tsishka Hartny (Ciška Hartny, Цішка Гартны), and a political leader.
Life
In 1904, Zhylunovich joined the Belarusian Socialist Assembly and took part in organizing Belarusian workers. He contributed to the newspaper Nasha Niva and helped in its distribution.[1]
In 1910 and 1911 he went to his hometown to Kapil and participated in the work of local organizations Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, in editions of pamphlets magazines.
Zhylunovich became a member of the Belarusian National Committee which organized the First All-Belarusian Congress. When a split occurred in the Belarusian Socialist Assembly in 1918, he became a member of the Bolshevik Party.[1]
He was the first head of a Soviet government in Belarus, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia.[1]
In 1924 he published a book "Slivers on the waves".
In 1937, during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, he was arrested as an "enemy of the Belarusian people" and committed suicide in prison.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d "Žyłunovič Źmicier", which cites the following sources: "Bieł. Sav. Enc., vol. 3, 1971, pp. 367–368; Ant.Adamovich. "Opposition to Sovietization..." N.Y. 1958, p. 193; The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, vol. 12, 1979, pp. 87–88; Nioman, Minsk, no. 2, 1988, pp. 7–106."
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