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was very successful. Beginning in
1906 Kirov was again pursued by the
police and again found himself in
prison. Imprisonment then took a
year of his life and work. But the
prison gates had hardly closed upon
the young proletarian fighter when
he Immediately commenced to carry
out party instructions. Together
with a group of comrades, after his
release, he organized an excellent
conspirative printshop underground
in Tomsk. A new arrest again in
terrupted his almost completed
work. Kirov was sentenced to three
years in a fortress.
He was put in an individual cell
in prison outside of Tomsk. This
was Kirov's revolutionary universe
ty. He crossed the threshold of his
cell firmly convinced that he would
leave it sooner or later. Meanwhile,
it was necessary to utilize his time
for self education. These were diff
f1cult years. Punitive expeditions
and gallows were visible all around.
Solitary confinement in the Tomsk
prison was for many revolutionaries
the last stage to the gallows. FIRE.
quently, the quiet of the night was
broken by farewell cries of con-
demned prisoners. These three years
steeled his nerves and will. After
his release he worked in Irkutsk
and Vladikavkas.
Arrested Fourth Time
Kirov spent several years as an
illegal worker. Then the war began.
In 1915 he was arrested for the
fourth time and sent to Tomsk in
the prison gang. Another year he
spent in prison. The sentence in
cluded subsequent exile to Marin,
but the February revolution inter
fered. Kirov took a direct part as
a member of the Vladikavkas COM
mittee of the Social Democratic or
ganization. He worked through 1917
in Vladikavkas and when the flames
of the october revolution burst over
the Caucasus, Kirov was one of the
organizers of Soviet Power, and a
leader of the armed struggle against
the white cossack gangs.
The Bolshevik organization sent
him to Moscow for weapons and
ammunition for the Red Caucasian
front which was being formed.
Kirov returned to the Caucasus in
1918 through Tsaritsin with a big
convoy Of military supplies. But
it was already too late to break
through. The white guard gangs
had succeeded in squeezing out the
scattered partisan attachments of
the Caucasian Red Army.
The Party knew Kirov as a firm,
steeled fighter with his clear mind,
quiet determination and sacrificing
loyalty to the proletarian revolu-
ton. He was charged with re-
sponsible sector of the struggle
against counter revolution-the de-
Tense of Astrakhan.
Kirov wrote brilliant page in
the history of the civil war. Here
at the lower reaches of the Volga.
Kirov directed the work, gathering
and organizing the 18th Red Army.
Astrakhan remained in the hands
of the Soviets because in the rev.
olutionary military council of the
18th Army, which defended the
Volga Soviet land, dubbed the
boundless energy of Kirov.
Fought Denikin
Together with the Eleventh
Army and at its head, Kirov par
ticipated in the defeat of Denikin
and the restoration of Soviet
Power in the North Caucasus and
Baku. He was diplomatic repre-
sensitive of the Russian Soviet
Republic in the still Menshevik
Georgia. He participated in the
peace negotiations with Poland. He
then participated in Party work in
the North Caucasus and in Aver
baijan.
Here Kirov worked as secretary
of the central committee of the
Azerbaijan Communist Party and a
member of the South Caucasian
regional committee of the Commu-
mist Party Kirov as prominent
Party director performed great
work for the foundation and
Strengthening Of Soviet Power in