Vera Klimentievna Slutskaya (17 September 1874 – 12 November 1917) was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik member of the Duma. She participated in the February and October revolutions and was shot by Cossacks near Petrograd during the latter.
Born Bertha Bronislavovna in Mir, in Minsk Governorate, in a middle-class Jewish family, and educated as a dentist. Vera Klimentjevna Slutskaya participated in the revolutionary movement since 1898. After an arrest, criminal proceedings were instituted against her, and in 1901 she was placed under public oversight of the police. In the same year, she joined the Bund - the Jewish Social-Democratic Party, which was an autonomous organization of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP); from 1902 she participated in the general work in the RSDLP, after 1903, close to the Bolsheviks. During the First Russian Revolution of 1905-1907, was a member of the combat organization of the RSDLP, took part in the revolutionary struggle in Minsk and St. Petersburg. After being a delegate to the Fifth Congress of the RSDLP (1907), she stayed in Russia and led party work in St. Petersburg.
