Pēteris Stučka

Pēteris Stučka
Stučka in 1918
Chief Justice of the RSFSR
In office
1923–1932
PremierVladimir Lenin (until 1924)
Alexei Rykov (until 1930)
Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byIvan Lazarevic Bulat
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic
In office
17 December 1918  13 January 1920
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition dissolved
People's Commissar for Justice of the RSFSR
In office
29 November  22 December 1917
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byGeorgy Oppokov
Succeeded byIsaac Steinberg
In office
18 March  14 September 1918
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byIsaac Steinberg
Succeeded byDmitry Kursky
Personal details
BornJuly 26 [O.S. July 14] 1865
Koknese, Livonia, Russian Empire
(now Koknese, Latvia)
DiedJanuary 25, 1932(1932-01-25) (aged 66)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting placeKremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
NationalitySoviet
Political partyAll-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)
SpouseDora Pliekšāne
Alma materSt. Petersburg University
ProfessionLawyer

Pēteris Stučka, sometimes spelt Pyotr Stuchka; (July 26 [O.S. July 14] 1865 – 25 January 1932), was a Latvian jurist and communist politician, leader of the pro-Bolshevik puppet government in Latvia during the 1918–1920 Latvian War of Independence, and later a statesman in the Soviet Union.