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	25 May 1871 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	August 16, 1921 (aged 50) Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Political party	RSDLP (1898–1903) RSDLP (Mensheviks) (1903–1917) Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1917–1921)

Isidor Emmanuilovich Gukovsky (Russian: Исидор Эммануилович Гуковский; 25 May 1871 – 16 August 1921) was a Russian revolutionary who was a People's Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR 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 a later became a member of the Menshevik faction of the RSDLP. 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 where he advocated for a plan similar to the New Economic Policy, then plenipotentiary representative of Russia in Estonia. He was accused of bribery and corruption during his position as Finance Commissar but died of pneumonia in Estonia before his trial could take place.

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