Pavel Axelrod
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Pavel Borisovich Axelrod (Russian: 1850-1928) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary.
Raised in Chernigov, a small provincial town in the Russian Empire (currently Ukraine), Axelrod was the son of a poor Jewish innkeeper. Influenced by Mikhail Bakunin in his youth, he remained an Idealist even after adopting the Marxist philosophy of historical materialism. Axelrod co-founded the Marxist group Emancipation of Labor in Switzerland with his lifelong friend Georgi Plekhanov and Vera Zasulich in 1883. In 1900, Axelrod, Plekhanov and Zasulich joined forces with younger revolutionary Marxists Julius Martov, Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Potresov and the six edited Iskra, a Marxist newspaper, in 1900-1903. When Iskra supporters split at the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1903, Axelrod sided with the Menshevik faction against Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks. After the Bolshevik victory following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Axelrod left Russia. He died in exile in Berlin, in 1928.
References
- Abraham Ascher. Pavel Axelrod and the Development of Menshevism, Harvard University Press, 1972, ISBN 0674659058, 420p.
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