Wladimir S. Woytinsky
Vladimir S. Voitinsky (russian: Владимир Савельевич Войтинский'';'' ''Vladimir Savelyevich Voitinsky'' November 12, 1885 – June 11, 1960) was a Russian revolutionary, politician and economist. Voitinsky was born in St. Petersburg into a literati family, he studied economics there and authored a well-received monograph in 1905. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, Voitinsky joined the Bolshevik wing of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He was arrested by the police and exiled to Siberia. During the World War I years, he became close to the leading Georgia (country), Georgian Menshevik Irakli Tsereteli and defected to the more moderate Mensheviks. During the Russian Revolution of 1917, he was a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, Central Executive Committee of the Soviets, edited the newspaper ''Izvestia'', and served as a commissar at front. After the October Revolution, he was briefly arrested and subsequently fled to the ...
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