About Iakov Shafir
Lived 1886 – 1938 (aged 51–52). Iakov Shafir was a Russian historian.
Iakov Mikhailovich Shafir (1886 - 26 April, 1938) was a Bolshevik historian. He was murdered during Stalin's Great Purge.
Shafir joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903. He remained active with them until 1917 when he joined the Right Socialist Revolutionary Party.
Arrest and death Shafir was arrested on 15 March 1938 on charges of "participation in a counter-revolutionary organization". He was tried by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR and sentenced to death. He was shot on 26 April at the Butovo firing range.
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Who was Iakov Shafir?
Soviet historian
When was Iakov Shafir born?
Iakov Shafir was born in 1886.
When did Iakov Shafir die?
Iakov Shafir died on 26 April 1938.
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Iakov Shafir was a historian.
What nationality was Iakov Shafir?
Iakov Shafir was Russian.
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