Vladimir Milyutin
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Vladimir Pavlovich Milyutin (24 October 1884- 30 October 1937) was a Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 leader who was appointed People's Commissar of Agriculture in 1917.

Milyutin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party , also known as Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or Russian Social Democratic Party, was a revolutionary socialist Russian political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organizations into one party...

 in 1903 and sided with the Bolshevik faction. He was viewed as an expert on the peasant question. He was a victim of Stalin's purges, dying in prison.

He was rehabilitated in 1956.
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