She filled a number of roles in Moscow until the end of the Russian Civil War, upon which she was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

[1][2] In 1904, she joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) and became a member of its Bolshevik faction.

[1] In the wake of the Bolshevik takeover, she was appointed secretary of the city's revolutionary committee, as a judge of the local People's Court[2] and as an investigator for the provincial Cheka.

[1] On 9 April 1929, she was put forward as a candidate for the secretariat of the party's central committee, although her candidacy was rejected on 5 June 1930.

The following month, on 27 January 1938, Pilatskaya was posthumously excluded from membership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.