Georgy Oppokov


Georgy Ippolitovich Oppokov was a prominent Bolshevik, Soviet politician, Left Communist, and subsequently a member of the Left Opposition and People's Commissar for Justice.
Oppokov was a Bolshevik candidate in the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election, being fielded in the Arkhangelsk constituency.
In 1918 he voted against accepting the terms of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. Then in March 1918 he was ousted from the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy.
Oppokov was arrested in June 1937 during the Great Purge, sentenced to death and shot on 30 December 1938. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.