Martov: Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat

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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." Preface Contents Illustrations Abbreviations 1. A Grandson of the Haskalah 2. Revolutionary Apprenticeship 3. Fighting Companionship 4. The Parting of the Ways 5. 1905—a ‘Bourgeois’ Revolution 6. The Missed Opportunity 7. War and Revolution 8. ‘Straightening-Out’ the Bolshevik Revolution 9. The Fiasco of ‘Socialist Intervention 10. ‘The Hamlet of Democratic Socialism’? Bibliography Index