Tag #125012 - Interview #78040 (Vladimir Tarskiy)

My father also got involved in revolutionary activities when he was young. As I mentioned before, Tarskiy was his pseudonym and later it became his surname, as well as mine. My father’s older brother Ilia provided money for my father to finish a Humanitarian Faculty in Switzerland. At the age of 22 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine at the 1st and 2nd Congresses of the Communist Party of the Bolsheviks of Ukraine and the Central Committee sent him to Odessa [5] [about 450 km south of Kiev] to organize the Bolshevik underground to struggle against Denikin [6]. My father became a Bolshevik journalist. He supervised the ‘Odesskiy communist’ newspaper publications. Later my father was chief editor of the ‘Knigonosha’, a popular magazine in Odessa in the 1920s.