Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov

Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov Ива́н Скворцо́в-Степа́нов
People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR
In office 27 October – 30 October 1917
Premier	Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by	None—post created
Succeeded by	Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
Personal details
Born	(1870-02-24)24 February 1870 Bogorodsk, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	8 October 1928(1928-10-08) (aged 58) Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Political party	All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)

Ivan Ivanovich Skvortsov-Stepanov (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Скворцо́в-Степа́нов, 1870–1928) was a prominent Russian Bolshevik. Skvortsov-Stepanov was one of the oldest participants in the Russian revolutionary movement and a Marxist writer.

Ivan was the son of a Moscow factory clerical worker based in Bogorodsk. He joined the revolutionary movement in 1892 and became a Bolshevik in the winter of 1904. When Bor'ba was publiished in November 1905, Skvortsov-Stepanov was a member of the editorial board. In 1906 he was a delegate to the Fourth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, where he supported Lenin. During the period 1907–10, he favoured the Mezhraiontsy faction, but later fell again under the influence of Lenin. He was repeatedly arrested and exiled for his revolutionary activities.

Following the Revolution of 1917 he became the People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR.

Upon his death in October 1928, Stepanov was commemorated by Stalin as a "staunch and steadfast Leninist". This contrasts greatly with the treatment of the majority of members of the original Council of the People's Commissars, most of whom were executed during Stalin's purges.

Publications

• Izbrannye ateisticheskie proizvedenii'a

External links

• Letter from Lenin to Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov, 2 December 1909