FTP identify this man whose murder was used as a pretext by Stalin to purge the Communist party.
He led a successful railroad strike in Tomsk and as a result was imprisoned in the Caucuses. After the revolution he worked in Azerbaijan where he organized the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and rose in the ranks until being named head of the Leningrad party. A charismatic leader, his 1934 policy of reconciliation for prisoners and support of Trotsky put him at odds with his friend and mentor, and on December 1, 1934, Leonid Nikolayev walked into Party Headquarters and killed him. FTP identify this man whose murder was used as a pretext by Stalin to purge the Communist party.
He led a successful railroad strike in Tomsk and as a result was imprisoned in the Caucuses.
Sergei Mironovich Kirov