David Riazanov
Russian-Soviet political revolutionary, Marxist theoretician, and archivist · Russia · On the map · Activists · Lived 1870 to 1938 · aged 67
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.
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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.
