 jÄnis rudzutaks (; august 3, 1887 &ndash; july 29, 1938) was a bolshevik revolutionary and a soviet politician. rudzutaks was born in the kuldÄ«ga district of the courland governorate (present-day kursÄ«Å¡i parish, saldus municipality, latvia), into the family of a farm worker. in 1903, he started working in a factory in riga. two years later, he joined latvian social democratic labour party. in 1907, rudzutaks was arrested because of his political views and was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor. he served a part of his sentence in riga and was then transferred to butyrka prison in moscow. rudzutaks was released after the february revolution of 1917. after his release, rudzutaks served in various positions in the all-russia communist party, soviet system and labor unions. he became a close
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