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P. K. Ignatov
PETR KARPOVICH IGNATOV (Sept. 29 (Oct. 11), 1894) was a Russian engineer and writer.
Born in Shakhty, he became a member of the CPSU in 1913.
In 1915, Ignatov was exiled to the Urals as a result ...view morePETR KARPOVICH IGNATOV (Sept. 29 (Oct. 11), 1894) was a Russian engineer and writer.
Born in Shakhty, he became a member of the CPSU in 1913.
In 1915, Ignatov was exiled to the Urals as a result of his revolutionary activity. He participated in the October Revolution and the Civil War. On the eve of the Great Patriotic War, he was the manager of a plant. He was a deputy to the second convocation of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
He is the author of the memoirs Notes of a Partisan (1944) and Our Sons (1958) and has been awarded the Order of Lenin.
JOE FINEBERG (1886-1957) was a prominent translator for the Communist International. He produced English translations of works by Alexander Bogdanov, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Ilya Ehrenburg, Vladimir Lenin, Boris Polevoy, Leo Tolstoy and others.
Fineberg was born in Poland, but it was while in London that he became active in the Jewish Social Democratic Organisation, a section of the British Socialist Party (BSP) for Jews based in London’s East End. Although living in Hackney, he was secretary of the Stepney BSP branch.
In July 1918, Fineberg moved to post-revolutionary Russia of his own volition, at a time when many of his comrades were being deported. Once there he became a translator for the Communist International and joined the Bolshevik British Communist Group in Russia.
Fineberg was at the Founding Congress of the Comintern (2-6 March 1919).
He died in 1957.view less