Lozovskii, A.

(pseudonym of Solomon Abramovich Dridzo). Born Mar. 16 (28), 1878; died Aug. 12, 1952. Soviet state and party figure. Doctor of historical science (1939). Member of the Communist Party from 1901. Son of a teacher in the village of Danilovka, Aleksandrovsk District, Ekaterinoslav Province.

Lozovskii engaged in party work in St. Petersburg, Kazan, and Kharkov. He participated actively in the Revolution of 1905–07 in Kazan and was a delegate to the first conference of the RSDLP in Tammerfors (1905). He was arrested in 1906, and in 1908, en route to exile, he fled abroad. He lived as an émigré in Geneva and Paris from 1909 to 1917. A member of the French Socialist Party, he participated in the French trade union movement. In 1912 he became affiliated with a group of Bolshevik conciliators. During World War I (1914–18) he was an internationalist.

Lozovskii returned to Russia in June 1917. At the Third All-Russian Conference of Trade Unions (July 1917) he was elected secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. In December 1917 he was expelled from the RSDLP(B) for opposing the party’s policies. Over 1918–19 he headed a group of Social Democratic internationalists, as part of which he was readmitted to the RCP(B) in December 1919. From 1918 to 1921, he was executive secretary of the textile workers’ trade union, then of the railroad workers’ union; he was chairman of the Moscow City Trade Union Council. From 1921 to 1937 he was general secretary of the Red International of Trade Unions. He was director of the State Literary Publishing House from 1937 to 1939. From 1939 to 1946 he was deputy people’s commissar, then deputy minister of foreign affairs of the USSR, and from 1941 to 1948 he was simultaneously deputy chief, then chief of the Soviet Information Bureau.

Lozovskii was director of the department of the history of international affairs and foreign policy of the USSR at the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the ACP(B) from 1940 to 1949. He was a delegate to the Eighth through Eighteenth Party Congresses; at the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Congresses he was elected a candidate member of the Central Committee, and at the Eighteenth Congress, a member of the Central Committee of the ACP(B). Lozovskii was a delegate to the second through seventh congresses of the Comintern and a member of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. He was a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Central Executive Committee of the USSR. He was a deputy to the first and second convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Lozovskii was the author of a number of works on the international and Soviet trade union movements. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War First Class, and various medals.