| Description |
viii, 246 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Summary |
This is the first biography of Martov, the founder and leader of Menshevism. It records his revolutionary apprenticeship in Vilno and St Petersburg in 1893-6; his early friendship and partnership with Lenin in Siberian exile and on the revolutionary newspaper Iskra in Munich and London; the dramatic break-up of that partnership at the Second Congress of Russian Social Democrats in 1903 and the division between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks; the ensuing feud between Martov and Lenin; Martov's role in the 1905 revolutions; his later activities as leader of the Menshevik-Internationalists, then of the socialist opposition in Bolshevik Russia until 1920, and of the Mensheviks in exile, until his death. Martov is shown as a noble and tragic figure of modern Russian and Jewish history and of international socialsm, and as a key figure to the understanding of all three |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: 227-238 |
| Subject |
Martov, IUiii Osipovich, 1873-1923
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Martov, L., 1873-1923.
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Martov, Iulli Osipovich, 1873-1923
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Mensheviks -- Russia -- Biography.
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Menshevism
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| LC no. |
67103767 |
| ISBN |
0521050731 |
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