Artemic Khalatov
Artemic (Artashes) Bagratovich Khalatov (Russian: Артемий Багратович Халатов; 15 (27) April 1894 – 26 September 1937[1] or 27 October 1938[2])(sources differ) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician who was the director of the Soviet Union's State Publishing House, from 1927-1932. He was executed during the Great Purge.[1]
Artemic Bagratovich Khalatov | |
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Артемий Багратович Халатов | |
 Khalatov, 7 November 1919 at the celebrations of the second anniversary of the October Revolution | |
| Head of the State Publishing House | |
| In office 1927–1932 | |
| Preceded by | Otto Schmidt |
| Succeeded by | Mikhail Tomsky |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 April 1894 Baku, Russian Empire |
| Died | 27 October 1937 (aged 43) Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Moscow Commercial Institute |
| Profession | Publisher, economist |
Biography
Khalatov was born Artashes Khalatiants in Baku. Although official biographies described him as coming from a working-class background more recent research has shown that he was born into the family of a wealthy Armenian merchant.[1] He was a student in the Moscow Commercial Institute and joined a Marxist circle during his studies. After meeting Anastas Mikoyan he became involved revolutionary activities.
After the February Revolution, Khalatov became deputy chairman of the Moscow City Food Committee. From October 26, 1917, Deputy Extraordinary Commissioner, from the beginning of 1918, Moscow Extraordinary Commissioner for Food and Transport. During the Civil War, he was in leading positions in the People's Commissariat of Food and the Main Directorate for the supply of the army with. He was sent to Ukraine in order to negotiate with Pavlo Skoropadskyi for food supplies but was arrested and then sent to Russia again. Member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and permanent member of the Moscow City Council.
From to 1928 he was Chairman of the Commission for the Improvement of the Life of Scientists (TSEKUBU) under the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR and USSR and resolved issues related to the supply of scientists. From 1922, a member of the board of the People's Commissariat of Railways, and in 1927, he became a member of the board of the People's Commissariat of Education, chairman of the board of State Publishing House and OGIZ. He played a significant role in the formation of censorship and the ideologization of Soviet literature.[1]
From 1935 to 1937 Khalatov was head of the "Central Committee of the All Union Society of Inventors". He actively participated in the Great Purge by publishing defamatory articles about various groups of people who were already the focus of the Soviet state security NKVD. During this period he wrote and published works on political economy as well. However, his loyalty to the party line did not prevent him from falling to the purge. In 1937 Khalatov was as expelled from the Communist Party and was executed on October 27, 1938. Artemic Khalatov was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.[2]
He is buried at the Donskoye cemetery.
References
- "Говорит Москва. Артемий Багратович ХАЛАТОВ". www.ruthenia.ru. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
- "Халатов Арташес Багратович". bse.sci-lib.com. Retrieved 22 June 2018.