Vladimir Zitta
Vladimir Osipovich Zitta was a Russian politician. He was a Socialist-Revolutionary, turned Left Socialist-Revolutionary during the Russian Revolution of 1917, and he briefly served as a people's commissar in 1918. He later emerged as a leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionary splinter-group Party of [Revolutionary Communism] but was expelled from that party after about one year.
Before the revolution
Zitta joined the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries in the 1910. He spent six months in jail prior to the revolutions of 1917.Left SR and People's Commissar
As of 1917 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Soviet of Workers Deputies. As the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries was divided, Zitta sided with the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries. In 1918, after the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries entered a coalition government with the Bolsheviks, Zitta served was named Commissar for Agriculture in the Moscow Regional Council of People's Commissars.He was a delegate to the Third All-Russian Congress of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants Deputies Soviets.
When the Moscow Regional Council of People's Commissars was liquidated, the Central Committee of the Party of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries decided to send Zitta to Arkhangelsk. He was a delegate to the Third All-Russian Congress of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants Deputies Soviets. He was also a delegate at the Fifth All–Russian Congress of Soviets representing the Arkhangelsk Soviet. He opted to remain in Moscow after the failed Left SR uprising.