Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov (russian: Юрий Михайлович Стеклов; born Ovshey Moiseyevich Nakhamkis; russian: Овший Моисе́евич Наха́мкис; , in

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- 15 September 1941, in Saratov) was a Russian revolutionary,

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politician, journalist, editor and historian. Steklov joined the

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faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903 and became editor of '' Izvestia'' of the Petrograd Soviet after the Russian Revolution. He wrote biographies of

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Antoinette M. Burton, ''Archive stories: facts, fictions, and the writing of history'', Duke University Press, 1995, pp. 221-3 and

Alexander Herzen Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, translit=Alexándr Ivánovich Gértsen; ) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agra ...

, as well as commentary on Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Steklov was arrested in February 1938 amid the Great Purge. After the outbreak of World War II on the Eastern Front, he was transferred to the Saratov prison where he died on September 15, 1941 from

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and extreme exhaustion at the age of 68. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.

Works

* ''Michael Bakunin: ein Lebensbild'', Stuttgart: J.H.W. Dietz, 1913 * ''A. J. Herzen: eine Biographie'', Berlin: A. Seehof, 1920. * ''History of the first International'', London: M. Lawrence, 928 Translated by Cedar and

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from the 3rd Russian ed., with notes from the 4th ed.

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Marxist writers: G. M. Stekloff
1873 births 1941 deaths Odesa Jews Politicians from Odesa Old Bolsheviks Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Soviet historians Great Purge victims from Ukraine Jewish socialists Soviet rehabilitations Writers from Odesa Soviet journalists Soviet newspaper editors Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Soviet publishers (people) All-Russian Central Executive Committee members People who died in the Gulag {{Soviet-bio-stub