Semyon Dimanstein

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Semyon Dimanstein

Semyon Dimanstein ( (1886(uncertain)- August 1938) was a Soviet

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
state activist, publisher, theorist of national issue in the USSR, one of the founders of the Soviet Oriental studies. He was considered to be a representative of Soviet Jew

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s.

Dimanstein was born in Sebezh, Pskov

Pskov

Pskov is an ancient types of inhabited localities in Russia located in the north-west of Russia about east from the Estonian border, on the Velikaya River....
oblast in a Jewish family of a trader. He studied in a Chabad

Chabad

*Chabad is an acronym for Chochmah, Binah, and Da'at, the three levels of Sefirot related to cognition according to the Kabbalah.*Chabad-Strashelye, Strashelye is a branch of the Chabad school of Hasidic Judaism....
yeshiva

Yeshiva

Yeshiva or yeshivah , or metivta or mesivta ) also frequently referred to as a Beth midrash, Talmudical Academy, Rabbinical Academy or Rabbinical School is an institution unique to classical Judaism for Torah study, the study of Talmud, Rabbinic literature and History of responsa....
where eighteen-year Semyon ordained his rabbinate.

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Semyon Dimanstein ( (1886(uncertain)- August 1938) was a Soviet

Soviet Union

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
s.

Dimanstein was born in Sebezh, Pskov

Pskov

Chabad

Yeshiva

Poverty

Poverty is the shortage of common things such as food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, all of which determine our quality of life. It may also include the lack of access to opportunities such as education and employment which aid the escape from poverty and/or allow one to enjoy the respect of fellow citizens....
and homelessness

Homelessness

Homelessness is the condition and social category of people who lack housing, because they cannot afford, or are otherwise unable to maintain, regular, safe, and adequate shelter....
, gradually abandoning his religious upbringing in favor of revolutionary activities.

Pre-Revolution Socialist activities

In 1904 Dimanstein became a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, or RSDLP , also known as the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party and the Russian Social-Democratic Party, was a revolutionary socialist Russian political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organizations into one party....
in Vilno, where his major objective was to dispute with Jewish Socialist Party, Bund and Zionism

Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
parties. After the range of the government repression in 1908, he was sentenced to life settlement in the Irkutsk

Irkutsk

Irkutsk is one of the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, situated by rail from Moscow....
region. Dimanstein escaped and left the Russian Empire

Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
for France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
until the March Revolution 1917.

Party career

At that time Russia was at war and Dimanstein was a propagandist of a peace treaty. He was one of the editors of Trench Truth (??????? ??????). Dimanstein played a significant role during the Bolshevik

Bolshevik

Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxism Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
October Revolution in 1917. He was appointed a head of Yevsektsiya

Yevsektsiya

Yevsektsiya , Russian language: ????????, the syllabic abbreviation of the phrase "????????? ??????" was the Jewish section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....
in January 1918.

In 1920 Dimanstein was sent to Bukhara

Bukhara

Bukhara , also spelled as Bukhoro and Bokhara, from the Soghdian ?uxarak , is the Capital of the Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan. The nation's fifth-largest city, it has a population of 237,900 ....
People's Soviet Republic where he established Soviet institutions and supported creation of local elite. In 1922-1924 Dimanstein worked in Agitation

Agitation

Agitation may refer to:* emotional state of excitement or restlessness** psychomotor agitation, an extreme form of the above, which can be a side effect of antipsychotic medication...
Department of Ukraine.

In 1924 he returned to Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
where Dimanstein headed different propaganda departments which the objectives were to spread Soviet ideology

Ideology

An ideology is a set of aims and ideas, especially in politics. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things , as in common sense and several philosophical tendencies , or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to all members of this society....
among non-Russian peoples. Dimanstein was an editor of New East and Revolution and Nationality. He was a steady supporter of Stalin's policies

Stalinism

File:Joseph Stalin.jpgStalinism is a term that purportedly describes the political system of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1929?1953....
. His last appointment was a head of the Central Committee of OZET

OZET

OZET was public Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land in the Soviet Union in the period from 1925 to 1938. Some English sources use the word "Working" instead of "Toiling"....
.

Semyon Dimanstein advocated the establishment of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia situated in the Far Eastern Federal District federal districts of Russia, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast of Russia and Heilongjiang province of People's Republic of China....
the Russian Far East

Russian Far East

Russian Far East is a term that refers to the Russian part of the Far East, i.e., extreme east parts of Russia, between Siberia and the Pacific Ocean....
. In 1930 he was against the collectivization of Jewish settlements in Jewish national districts

Komzet

Komzet was the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land in the Soviet Union. The primary goal of the Komzet was to help impoverished and persecuted Jewish population of the former Pale of Settlement to adopt agricultural labor....
of Southern Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
and Northern Crimea

Crimea

Crimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is an autonomous republic of Ukraine located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name....
. In 1935 Dimanstein was an editor of a propaganda

Propaganda

Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to Objectivity providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience....
book Yidn in FSSR (Jews in the Soviet Union). From October 1936, Dimanstein was one of the editors of Forpost, a newspaper in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast's capital city of Birobidzhan

Birobidzhan

Birobidzhan is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Trans-Siberian railway, close to the border with the People's Republic of China, and is the home of two synagogues, including the Birobidzhan Synagogue, and the Jewish religious community of the...
.

Death

On 21 February, 1938 Dimanstein was arrested. He received a death sentence

Death Sentence

"Death Sentence" is a short story by the American science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the November 1943 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and reprinted in the 1972 collection The Early Asimov....
on 20 August, 1938 and was executed. He was rehabilitated posthumously on 13 August, 1955, two years after the death of Stalin. He was also editor of the Yiddish language newspaper Der Emes.

Semyon Dimanstein

Pre-Revolution Socialist activities

Party career

Death

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