Jūlijs Daniševskis
Latvian Bolshevik politician (1884–1938)
Jūlijs Kārlis Daniševskis (Russian: Карл Ю́лий Христиа́нович Данише́вский, Karl Yuri Hristianovich Danishevsky; 15 May 1884, Doblen County – 8 January 1938, Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast), alias Hermanis, was a Latvian Marxist and professional revolutionary.
Early life
Daniševskis was born into a prosperous peasant family in Latvia. Having becoming involved in revolutionary circles as a teenager, he took an active part in the 1905 Revolution, after which he had to flee to Russia to escape the punitive expedition sent to reconquer Latvia for the Tsar. In June 1907, he was elected the sole Latvian representative on the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)). in 1907–1914, he based at different times in St Petersburg, Baku, Tiflis, Warsaw, Riga, Latvia, and Moscow. In 1914, he was sentenced to exile for life in Narym, but escaped in January 1917.
After the February Revolution, Daniševskis was a member of the Russian Bureau of the Central Committee of the Social Democracy of the Latvian Territory. In May, he returned to Latvia, where he was one of the editors of the Bolshevik newspapers "Tsinya" ("Struggle") and "Soldier's Truth" and led revolutionary agitation among the workers and Latvian riflemen. He remained in Riga when it was overrun by the German army in 1917, going underground in order to carry out agitation among the soldiers of the occupying army.
He and Jukums Vācietis created and led the Latvian Division, which played a major role in suppressing the revolt by the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries in Petrograd.
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