[2] Teodorovich spent his childhood in severe poverty: his mother, struggling to support six sons, worked as a seamstress and laundrywoman.

He was a delegate to the 7th (April) All-Russian Conference (where he was elected a candidate member of the Central Committee[citation needed]) and to the 6th Congress of the RSDLP (B).

[4] In 1918, he returned to Siberia, and during the Russian Civil War he fought in a partisan detachment against the White Army of Admiral Kolchak.

Teodorovich was a proponent of Lenin's New Economic Policy (the NEP); he further endorsed liberal land-reforms (delegating authority over land from the state to peasants).

After The Central Committee of the RSDLP (B) rejected the agreement with these parties, Teodorovich on November 4 (17), 1917 signed a statement of withdrawal from the SNK, but continued to carry out his duties until December.

Teodorovich was removed from his post as Deputy People's Commissar a few weeks after the People's Commissar, Aleksandr Smirnov had been sacked, in February 1928, for 'peasant deviation', meaning that he had resisted a decision taken by Joseph Stalin to send detachments into the countryside to seize grain form the peasants to revolve a food shortage in the cities.

Stalin suspected Teodorovich, whom he called a "scoundrel", of acting as a link between Kondratiev and Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov and Mikhail Tomsky, who had led the opposition to forced collectivisation.

An ordinance of the Central Committee of the VKP (b) of the Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers closed the magazine on June 25, 1935, for factional activities.

[citation needed] Teodorovich was arrested during the Great Purge on 11 June 1937, and convicted in the trial of the so-called Moskva Center group (involving a total of 120 people).