Pēteris Stučka

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office2 =People's Commissar for Justice,
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term_start2 =1918-06-16
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office3 =Prime Minister of the
Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic
term_start3 =1918-12-17
term_end3 =1920-01-13
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office4 =Deputy People's Commissar for Justice,
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term_start4 =1921
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office5 =President of the Supreme Court
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birth_date =OldStyleDate|July 26|1865|July 14
birth_place =Koknese civil parish, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
death_date =1932-01-25
death_place =Moscow, USSR
nationality =Soviet Latvian
party =Communist Party of Latvia
spouse =Dora Pliekšāne
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alma_mater =St. Petersburg University
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profession =Lawyer
religion =Atheist


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Pēteris Stučka, sometimes spelt Pyotr Ivanovich Stuchka ( _ru. Пётр Иванович Стучка, _de. Peter Stutschka (in contemporary writings); b. OldStyleDate|July 26|1865|July 14 in Koknese civil parish, Governorate of Livonia — d. January 25 1932 in Moscow) was the head of the Bolshevik government in Latvia during the Latvian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the New Current movement in the late 19th century, a prolific writer and translator, an editor of major Latvian and Russian socialist and communist newspapers and periodicals, a prominent jurist and educator, and the first president of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union. Stučka's wife, Dora Pliekšāne (1870–1950), was the sister of the Latvian poet Rainis (Jānis Pliekšāns), with whom Stučka shared a room during their law studies at St. Petersburg University.

In the USSR during the 1920s, Stučka was one of the main Soviet legal theoreticians who promoted the "revolutionary" or "proletarian" model of socialist legality.

After his death in 1932, Stučka's remains were interred amongst those of other Communist dignitaries in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, near Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square.

Places and organizations named in honour of Stučka

* During the Soviet period, from 1958 to 1990, the University of Latvia was officially known as Pēteris Stučka Latvian State University ( _lv. Pētera Stučkas Latvijas Valsts universitāte).
* The town of Aizkraukle was named Stučka, after Pēteris Stučka, from the time when it was established in 1960s until the fall of Communism in 1991, when it was renamed Aizkraukle.
* In the GDR, Polytechnical Secondary School No. 55 ( _de. 55. Polytechnische Oberschule) in Rostock was named "Peter Stucka" in honour of the Latvian Communist.

Works

A comprehensive bibliography of the works by and about Stučka, with explanatory material in both Latvian and Russian, is:

*cite book |last= Olmane |first= P. |authorlink= |coauthors= Pūce, O. |title= Pēteris Stučka: Biobibliogrāfiskais rādītājs / Петр Стучка: Биобиблиографический указатель |year= 1988 |publisher= Viļa Lāča Latvijas PSR Valsts bibliotēka |location= Riga |language= Latvian and Russian |oclc= 22544777

Further reading

*cite book |last= Stuchka |first=P.I. |others= Robert Sharlet, Peter B. Maggs, and Piers Beirne (eds.) |title= Selected Writings on Soviet Law and Marxism |year= 1988 |publisher= M.E. Sharpe |location= Armonk, N.Y. |isbn= 0-87332-473-0 |oclc=17353762

External links

* [http://sites-of-memory.de/main/rigastucka.html Memorial to Pēteris Stučka in Riga at sites-of-memory.de]