Viktor Taratuta
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Viktor Taratuta was born in a middle-class family in Yelizavetgrad (Kropyvnytskyi) in the Kherson province of Ukraine.[2] He was educated at a technical school in Odesa, became involved in revolutionary circles as a teenager, and joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) in 1898.[3] He was arrested for the first time in June 1898, at the age of 17, and spent five months in prison in Odesa,[1] before being released because of his age, and placed under police supervision for two years. Rather than accept these conditions, he moved from city to city, initially within Ukraine. In 1901 was a member of the RSDLP committee in Yekaterinoslav (Dnipro).[2] He was arrested again in 1902, and spent 18 months in prison, and a year in exile in Siberia.[1] In August 1904, he escaped from exile in Siberia to Batumi, in Georgia, where he was recruited by Lev Kamenev to the Bolshevik faction of the RSDLP. He was arrested in spring 1905 and deported to the far north, but was released under an amnesty during the 1905 revolution, and settled in Moscow. In 1907, he was a delegate at the RSDLP Congress in London, where he was elected an alternate member of the Central Committee. Afterwards, he was co-opted onto the Bolshevik Centre, which acted as the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks faction.[2]