Yelena Stasova

Elena Stasova


Chairman of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Azerbaijan Communist Party
In office 9 September 1920 – 15 September 1920
Preceded by	Mirza Davud Huseynov
Succeeded by	Grigory Kaminsky
Chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party
In office March 1919 – December 1919
Preceded by	Yakov Sverdlov
Succeeded by	Nikolay Krestinsky (as Responsible Secretary)
Technical Secretary of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
In office April 1917 – 1918
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Yakov Sverdlov (as Chairman of the Secretariat)
Candidate member of the 7th, 8th Politburo
In office 13 April – 26 September 1919
In office 11 March – 25 March 1919
Member of the 6th, 7th, 8th Secretariat
In office 4 August 1917 – 15 April 1920
Personal details
Born	3 October 1873 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	31 December 1966(1966-12-31) (aged 93) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet
Nationality	Russian
Political party	Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik)

Elena Dmitrievna Stasova (Russian: Еле́на Дми́триевна Ста́сова; IPA: [jɪˈlʲɛnə ˈdmʲitrʲɪɪvnə ˈstasəvə]; 3 October 1873 – 31 December 1966) was a Russian communist revolutionary who became a political functionary working for the Communist International (Comintern). She was a Comintern representative to Germany in 1921. From 1927 to 1938 she was the president of International Red Aid (MOPR). From 1938 to 1946 she worked on the editorial staff of the magazine International Literature.

Elena Stasova was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1873 to an ethnic Russian family. She was the daughter of a liberal jurist, Dmitry Stasov (1828–1918) who worked in the Senate and was a Herald at the coronation of Alexander II. Her grandfather had been architect to Tsars Alexander I and Nicholas I. Her uncle was art critic Vladimir Stasov.

After finishing secondary school, Elena became a committed socialist and joined the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party (RSDRP) at the time of its establishment in 1898.