Isidore Gukovsky

Isidor Gukovsky Исидор Гуковский
People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR
In office 21 March – 16 August 1918
Premier	Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by	Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
Succeeded by	Nikolay Krestinsky
Personal details
Born	1871 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	1921 Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Political party	Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks)

Isidor Emmanuilovich Gukovsky (Russian: Исидор Эммануилович Гуковский 1871–1921) was the People's Commissar of Finance following the Russian Revolution.

Isidor was the son of a merchant, who became a chemist's assistant. In 1898, he started participating in the Group of Workers Revolutionaries. He later became a Menshevik.He was imprisoned for inciting the Izhorskiye workers to strike. In 1904 he went to Baku, and used the name Theodor Izmaylovich for his political work. By 1906 he was secretary of the newspaper New Life. He then went to Odessa before travelling abroad. In 1907, he returned to Russia, was arrested, again brought to trial but acquitted (1908). He settled in Moscow. After the October Revolution he became a Bolshevik and was appointed finance minister, then plenipotentiary representative of Russia in Estonia. In autumn 1921, he died of pneumonia.

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• Biography

Political offices
Preceded by Vyacheslav Menzhinsky	People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR March 1918 – 16 August 1918	Succeeded by Nikolai Krestinsky
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Nikoly Klyshko	Plenipotentiary Representative of the Soviet Union in Estonia 1920	Succeeded by Leonid Stark

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