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David Riazanov.
Russian-Soviet political revolutionary, Marxist theoretician, and archivist
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About David Riazanov
David Riazanov or Ryazanov, born David Borisovich Goldendakh, was a Russian revolutionary, historian, bibliographer, Marxologist and archivist. He had been an old associate of Leon Trotsky. Riazanov founded the Marx–Engels Institute and edited the first large-scale effort to publish the collected works of these two founders of the modern socialist movement. Riazanov was a prominent victim of the Great Terror of the late 1930s.
Everything about David Riazanov →- Occupation
- archivist, writer, trade unionist, politician
- Position held
- Member of the Russian Constituent Assembly
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- Born
- March 10, 1870
- Died
- January 21, 1938