Pēteris Stučka
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Pēteris Stučka (born 26,1865 in Koknese, died January 25,1932 in Moscow) was a writer, lawyer and politician, one of the leaders of New Power, editor of several socialist and communist press.
In 1888 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of St.Petersburg University.Together with Jānis Pliekšāns he was editor in chief of the newspaper “Dienas Lapa“.1888 -1897. g. works as a lay judge
Arrested in 1897, along with the entire newspaper editorial office. After 7 months in custody, he is sent to Vyatka Province for 5 years
From 1903 to 1906 he lives in Vitebsk under police supervision
In 1906 he returns to Latvia, Riga and heads the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party, which is part of the Russian SDSP.
He has been living in St. Petersburg since 1907, working in the illegal Social Democratic press.
Since 1915 he has been a member of the St. Petersburg Bolshevik Party.
1917-1918 .g. People's Justice Commissioner of the KPFSR, spokesman for the peace talks in Brestlitzov.
1918 Foreign People 's Commissar for the USSR.
1919 after the Russian invasion of the Republic of Latvia, the head of the Russian-created puppet state - the head of the government of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic, one of the organizers of the "red terror" in Bolshevik Riga.
1919 On the afternoon of January 3, the first Bolshevar rider patrol arrived in Riga. Riga and Latvia (with the exception of a small area in Kurzeme) began the Bolshevik era. The first red orders were signed by the Riga-Latvia Revolutionary War Committee. According to them, the "revolutionary proletariat" was given weapons and ordered the arrest of all officials of the Interim Government. They were replaced by the government of P. Stucka, with his deputies Janis Lencmanis (People's Commissar for Home Affairs) and Julius Danyshevskis, War Commissioner Karlis Petersons, Agriculture Commissioner Fricis Rozins, Finance Commissioner Rudolf Endrup, Industry Commissioner David Beika and others. c. All members of the Soviet government were paid around 800 rubles.
The puppet government in Stucka, Russia, abolished all laws of former governments, declaring that all decrees issued in Soviet Russia were "mechanically valid" in Latvia.
An anti-Latvian press in the 1920s, writing about the months of the red terror, mentions that between 3 January and 22 May 7000 Latvian citizens died. According to official publications in the communist editions, 1549 people were shot dead in Riga and 2083 in the countryside (3632 in total). However, the Latvian exile historian Ā. Warme believes that not all casualties were registered, increasing the number to at least 5,000
1923-1932 .g. First President of the USSR Supreme Court.
Buried on the Kremlin wall
He has published many articles and scholarly papers on Soviet law theory.
Peter Stučka's wife was Dora Stučka (born Pliekšāne) - the sister of Rainis.
During the Latvian SSR, the University of Latvia and the city of Aizkraukle were named after Peter Stucka.
Under the leadership of Peter Stucka, the USSR Civil Law was drafted on the basis of Roman law and the Civil Law of the Republic of Latvia, thus making the Soviet Union civil law very advanced. Given the relative nature of civil-law relations in a totalitarian state, its declarative ability was stable and constant for many years.
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