Vasiliy Mantsev

Vasiliy Nikolaevich Mantsev (Russian: Василий Николаевич Манцев; 1889 - 14 November, 1939) was a Russian revolutionary and high-ranking official of the Cheka.

Mantsev attended Moscow University to study law. He was active in the 1905 Revolution, joining the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906.[1] After several arrests he was sent into internal exile, but in 1911 he went abroad, returning illegally in 1913. However he was once again arrested and exiled to Vologda Oblast.[1] He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) with whom he remained as the party developed into the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[1]

He was called up for the Army in 1916. In 1917 he was elected to the regional bureau of the Moscow Soviet, and he played a role in the Bolshevik seizure of power in that city in October of that year.[1] He joined the Cheka September in 1918, where he headed the investigations department. He was also vice-chairman of the Moscow Cheka.[1]

From 1921 to 1922, the chairman of the All-Ukrainian Cheka (GPU). From March 1922, he served as People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. From 1923-1924 he was a member of the Central Control Commission of the RCP (b) . From August 1923, a member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of the Workers 'and Peasants' Inspection of the USSR. Since October 1923, a member of the board of the GPU (OGPU). From 1924 to 1936 he was the head of the Economic Planning Department of the Supreme Economic Council , the Deputy People's Commissar of Finance of the USSR . In 1936, chairman of a special board and deputy chairman of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR.

In 1921 he received instructions from Lenin to go Kharkov to Lenin to deal with the Popular Socialist economist Alexey Peshekhonov who was working for the People's Commissariat for Agriculture. Mantsev's instructions were to spy on Peshekhonov, to list and spy on his associates, ensure that Peshekhonov resigned from the Ukrainian Central Committee and that he return to Moscow.[2]

References
  1. "Vasilii Nikolaevich Mantsev". TheFreeDictionary.com. The Gale Grou. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  2. Lenin, Vladimir. "Lenin: 62. to V. N. Mantsev". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
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