Vladimir Bezel

Vladimir Yakovlevich Bezel was a Russian agronomist and politician.

Political activity and official roles

Early career (1904 – 1917) Bezel joined the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries in 1904. He sided with the Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (internationalists) (PLSR(i)) in the party split. He was also named Moscow Regional Deputy People's Commissar for Food.

On 9 May 1918, the Council of People's Commissars issued a decree titled 'On the emergency powers of the People's Commissar for Food'. In protest against this decree, Bezel resigned from his post on the People's Commissariat for Food board and his post as Moscow Regional Deputy People's Commissar for Food.

After the failed Left-Socialist Revolutionary uprising of 6–7 July 1918, Bezel was active in the dissident group led by Kolegaev. Bezel was part of the bureau to prepare the September 1918 congress which founded the Party of Revolutionary Communism as an independent party.

1919 In 1919, Bezel was part of the effort to unite the Party of Revolutionary Communism with other populist factions, on a platform of support to soviet power. But at the Fourth Party Congress of the Party of Revolutionary Communism held in October 1918, Bezel and others who favoured unification with other populists were defeated by the group of .