Sergey Ivanovich Gusev

Sergey Gusev

Sergei Ivanovich Gusev (real name - Yakov Davidovich Drabkin) (AKA "Gussev") (1874-1933) was a Russian revolutionary, Bolshevik, and Soviet party leader.

Background

Yakov Davidovich Drabkin was born on January 1, 1874, in Sapozhok, Ryazan Governorate, in the Russian Empire.

Career

Gusev was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1896.

Communism

He was a member of the Central Committee in its 1920, 1921, 1922 incarnations. He was also a member of the Central Control Commission (1923-1930).

Comintern

Max Bedacht, co-founder of the CPUSA, answered questions about Gusev during a 1939 Dies Committee hearing

In 1925 he was sent the United States as a representative of the Comintern to the Workers Party of America.^[1]

On October 16, 1939, J.B. Matthews, chief investigaor for the Dies Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, inquired into activities of Gusev (transliterated as "Gussev" in the transcript) in the U.S. during the 1920s with Max Bedacht, a co-founder of the Communist Party of the USA and long-time general secretary of the International Workers Order (IWO):

Mr. Matthews: Do you know a man by the name Gussev?
Mr. Bedacht: Gussev–I met Gussev in the Communist International.
Mr. Matthews: Did you ever meet him in the United States?
Mr. Bedacht: I did not.
Mr. Matthews. You never met Gussev in the United States?
Mr. Bedacht: No.
Mr. Matthews: Did Gussev ever write for The Communist during your editorship?
Mr. Bedacht. That may be so. I knoAv I solicited articles when I was in Moscow; I tried to solicit articles for the Communist from people I met.
Mr. Matthews: Did you know Gussev as a Comintern representative in the United States?
Mr. Bedacht: I don't know him as such.
Mr. Matthews: Did you ever know him by the name of "Green" or some other alias?

Mr. Bedacht: No.^[2]

Personal life and death

Gusev died on June 10, 1933, in Moscow.

References

↑ Draper, Theodore, 1912-2006. American communism and Soviet Russia : the formative period New York, Viking Press, 1960. pp.140-1
↑ Ward, Harry F. (1940). "Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States: Hearings before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 75th Congress, 3rd session-78th Congress, 2nd session, on HR 282". US GPO. p. 5880. Retrieved 7 July 2018.

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[1] Draper, Theodore, 1912-2006. American communism and Soviet Russia : the formative period New York, Viking Press, 1960. pp.140-1

[Dies-2] Ward, Harry F. (1940). "Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States: Hearings before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 75th Congress, 3rd session-78th Congress, 2nd session, on HR 282". US GPO. p. 5880. Retrieved 7 July 2018.