Vladimir Zitta

Vladimir Osipovich Zitta was a Russian politician. He was a Socialist-Revolutionary, turned Left Socialist-Revolutionary during the Russian Revolution of 1917, and he briefly served as a people's commissar in 1918. He later emerged as a leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionary splinter-group Party of Revolutionary Communism but was expelled from that party after about one year.

Before the revolution Zitta joined the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries in the 1910.

Left SR and People's Commissar As of 1917 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet of Workers Deputies. He was a delegate to the Third All-Russian Congress of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants Deputies Soviets (January 1918). Within the Party of Revolutionary Communism Zitta called for unity with other Socialist-Revolutionary populist forces. After a meeting was held with the Borbists and Maximalists in Moscow in August 1919, he became a member of the Unification Organizing Bureau formed at the gathering. After his expulsion from Party of Revolutionary Communism, Zitta and others expelled from the party (Bezel, Maksimov, Semenovskaya) continued political activities. To some extent their grouping had coordination with the Borbists.