Yemelyan Yaroslavsky belongs to the political record as a figure whose decisions outlasted the moment that produced them.
The record lists Yemelyan Yaroslavsky as Soviet politician (1878-1943).
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky was born at Chita in 1878. His recorded nationality is Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, mass movements, total war and the collapse of empires reshaped what a political career could be.
The record of office reads: deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and Member of the Russian Constituent Assembly.
His political affiliation is recorded as Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
His name is attached above all to League of the Militant Godless organization. Political reputations are settled slowly, and rarely by the people who made them.
Recognition followed: State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1943) and Order of Lenin (1943).
That the career was made in Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic is not incidental: the institutions available, the franchise, and the constraints of the moment all shaped what could be attempted.
Yemelyan Yaroslavsky died in 1943, aged 65. The assessment continues, as it does for anyone who held power - which is the ordinary fate of a political life.
Achievements
- deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
- Member of the Russian Constituent Assembly
- State Stalin Prize, 1st degree — 1943
- Order of Lenin — 1943
