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           AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MIKHAIL ANDREEVICH SUSLOV

     I was born in 1902 in the village of Shakhovskoe in the former
Khvalynskii uezd of the Saratovskaia guberniia (now the Pavlovskii
raion, Kuibyshev oblast).  My father and mother were poor peasants;
they ran a small peasant farm and didn't even have their own horse.
For this reason, my father occasionally sought work as a carpenter
(Baku, Arkhangel'sk).  Soon after the October Revolution, my father
quit farm work in the village completely, but my mother, with my
help, continued to farm for a time.  Subsequently, my father worked
as a laborer (store-room keeper in a butter factory in the city of
Vol'sk), as well as a leader in soviet work.  While a member of the
Communist Party (Bolsheviks), he died in 1930.  My father had been
expelled from the party because of his drinking.  My mother died in
1920.

     In my immediate family, I have a brother, Paul, not a party
member, who works as a bookkeeper in the Kuibyshev oblast (I don't
know exactly where since I haven't corresponded with him since 1929
or 1930).  None of my relatives (in my immediate family) was in the
White Army, was deprived of the right to vote, or went abroad.

     Until 1920 I lived in the village of Shakhovskoe and helped my
mother on the farm, and sometimes in winter I worked in the village
soviet and on the Committee of Poor Peasants as the assistant
secretary (my father was the chairman of the committee).

     In 1919 I began in earnest to be interested in Bolshevist
political pamphlets and politics.  At the beginning of 1920, I
organized a Komsomol branch in my village and was its secretary.
I served the party at this time chiefly as a collector in the
surplus-appropriation system and as an organizer of aid to poor
peasants at the expense of rich peasants [kulaks].


                             [ ... ]


     In the fall of 1931, by decision of the organizational bureau
of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party
(Bolsheviks) [TsK VKP(b)], I was sent to work at the USSR People's
Commissariat of Workers' and Peasants Inspection [NKRKI SSSR] of
the Central Control Commission [TsKK] of the VKP(b), where I worked
as a senior inspector until the beginning of 1934.  After the TsKK
was abolished, I worked as a controller of the Commission of Soviet
Control until August 1936.  I took an active role in party work
also in this period: in the culture and propaganda section of the
party committee, the party organization, propagandist, for a large
part of 1933 and 1934 I worked with the Urals party members, and
after that in the Chernigov oblast commission to purge the party,
where I was the leader of the inspection unit.

     In the fall of 1936, I was detailed by the TsK VKP(b) to the
Economics Institute of the Red Professorate (for the 2nd year
course).  I studied here for one year, after which I was sent by
the TsK VKP(b) to Rostov as the head the Section for Leaders of
Political Bodies [ORPO] of the Oblast Committee [Obkom] of the
VKP(b).

     For the entire period of my stay in the party, I have not been
disciplined by the party in any way; I have never had any doubts
about the general party line [...]








        PERSONAL INFORMATION FORM FOR PARTY REGISTRATION

Last name  Suslov   First name  Mikhail   Patronymic  Andreevich

1. Gender  male    2. Year/month of birth   January 1902   3. Place
of birth (use existing administrative divisions)    Kuibyshev
oblast, Pavlovskii raion, village of Shakhovskoe   4. Nationality
  Russian    5. Social background: a) former social position
(title) of parents   poor peasants   b) primary occupation of
parents prior to October Revolution    agriculture    ; after
October Revolution     father--in soviet industrial and party work,
died in 1930; mother--homemaker, died in 1920   6. Primary
occupation up to entering party    agriculture from youth   7.
Social position   office worker   8. Party affiliation   member
  VKP(b)   9. Which organization accepted you into membership in
the VKP(b)   City regional committee of Moscow   10. Party member
since    March 1921  Party membership card no.   1219627
11. Member of Komsomol from     February 1920   to       12. Other
party memberships (which, where, how long)   no other memberships
13. Were you formerly a member of the VKP(b)    no    14. Did you
participate in opposition activities (which groups, when)   Did not
             15. Trade union membership, from what year   Workers
 in Government Agencies, from September 1920   16. Education
     higher
General and special education:   Prechistenskii Worker's Faculty,
  Moscow, Feb. 1921-July 1924, Graduated; Plekhanov Institute of
  National Economy, Moscow, 1924-1928, Graduated, specialty of
  economist

 Party and political education:    Institute of Economics, Russian
  Association of Scientific Research Institutes of Social Sciences
 [RANION], Moscow, Fall 1929-Mar. 1931, did not graduate,
 completed 2nd year;  Economics Institute of the Red Professorate,
Moscow, Fall 1936-Oct. 1937, did not graduate, completed 3rd year.
17. Educational degree (title)   do not have      18. Scholarly
publications and inventions     none       19. Have you traveled
abroad    no                      .