Aleksei Kiselyov (politician)

In 1914, Kiselev joined the Central Committee of the party, and shortly thereafter he was arrested again and sent to Siberia by the Tsarist authorities.

Permitted to return to the west by the general amnesty of the February Revolution in 1917, Kiselev resumed his position on the Central Committee.

In 1920 Kiselev supported the Workers' Opposition, but conformed to party discipline when the group was banned.

In 1923 Kiselev also became the People's Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection of the Russian SFSR, and a reserve member to the same role for the whole Soviet Union.

[2] With Joseph Stalin in power, on September 7, 1937, after 20 years of service to the Soviet government, Kiselev was arrested for allegedly belonging to an "anti-Soviet counter-revolutionary organisation".