opposition, led by Uglanov and Nikolai Bukharin, for which he was sacked, and ostracised after Stalinist gained control of the Moscow organisation. In 1930 he was appointed director of the Archive of the October Revolution and served as a member of the academic boards of the Lenin Institute and of Istpart. He retired with a special pension in 1932. He died in Moscow in 1947 aged 74. References 1872 births 1947 deaths Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Old Bolsheviks Russian communists Russian Marxists Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members