Boris Davidovich Pinson (Russian: Борис Давидович Пинсон; 1892, inVitebsk – 23 November 1936, inMoscow) was aRussian revolutionary,Soviet politician and writer.
He joined theBolshevik wing of the RSDLP in 1907. At the time of theFebruary Revolution, 1917, he was in exile in theYeniseysk Governorate.[1]
Pinson was first secretary of theTatarstan Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from November 1923 to January 1924.[2] Pinson was expelled from the Communist Party for his support of theLeft Opposition but was reinstated in the party after his recognition of erroneous beliefs in 1928.
From 1934 to 1936, Pinson was Senior Inspector of the Inspectorate of the Union of Oil and Gas Sales of thePeople's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR.
However, he was arrested on 12 May 1936 and charged with "counter-revolutionary terrorist activities." TheMilitary Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to death on 4 November 1936, and he was shot on 23 November, 1936 in the building of the All-Russian Special Forces in Moscow. He was buried in the Don Cemetery.
He was posthumously rehabilitated by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on 14 November, 1957.[3]