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Grigori Sokolnikov

1888 - 1939

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Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Yankelevich Brilliant; 15 August 1888 – 21 May 1939) was a Russian revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician. Born to a Jewish family in Romny (now in Ukraine), Sokolnikov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905, and was active as a Bolshevik during the 1905 Revolution. He was exiled to Siberia from 1907 to 1909, when he escaped to Western Europe, and obtained a doctorate in economics from the Sorbonne. In 1917, Sokolnikov returned to Russia and was elected to the party's Central Committee, and following the October Revolution, oversaw the nationalisation of banks, was a member of the delegation at the negotiations for the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and served as political commissar during the Russian Civil War. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grigori Sokolnikov is the 9,682nd most popular politician (down from 7,119th in 2019), the 371st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 269th in 2019) and the 104th most popular Ukrainian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Grigori Sokolnikov ranks 9,682 out of 19,576. Before him are Abe no Nakamaro, Arnaldo Ochoa, Zhu of Xia, Pavlo Lazarenko, Amaury de Montfort, and Wollert Konow. After him are Sami al-Hinnawi, Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Publius Decius Mus, Erik Scavenius, Al-Fa'iz bi-Nasr Allah, and Aeropus I of Macedon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Grigori Sokolnikov ranks 107. Before him are Du Yuesheng, Jakow Trachtenberg, Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Herms Niel, Francesco Baracca, and Royal Rife. After him are S. S. Van Dine, Harilal Gandhi, Carl Hilpert, Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, James Waddell Alexander II, and Sophus Nielsen. Among people deceased in 1939, Grigori Sokolnikov ranks 70. Before him are Kyōka Izumi, Bruno Liljefors, Isaak Brodsky, Max Skladanowsky, Henri Le Sidaner, and Archibald Leitch. After him are Fyodor Raskolnikov, S. S. Van Dine, Konstantin Somov, Zinaida Yusupova, Ma Rainey, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Grigori Sokolnikov ranks 371 out of 1,365. Before him are Oleh Protasov (1964), Vasili Eroshenko (1890), Myroslav Skoryk (1938), Yevhen Petrushevych (1863), Danylo Apostol (1654), and Pavlo Lazarenko (1953). After him are Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), Dmytro Dontsov (1883), Emanuel Feuermann (1902), Vladimir Lyakhov (1941), Jacques Bergier (1912), and Ingeborg of Kiev (1100).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ukraine

Among politicians born in Ukraine, Grigori Sokolnikov ranks 104. Before him are Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), Vitaliy Masol (1928), Yaakov Dori (1899), Igor Sergeyev (1938), Yevhen Petrushevych (1863), and Pavlo Lazarenko (1953). After him are Ihor Kolomoyskyi (1963), Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null), Petro Shelest (1908), Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski (1520), Abraham Zapruder (1905), and Yevhen Marchuk (1941).

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