Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov (russian: Юрий Михайлович Стеклов; born Ovshey Moiseyevich Nakhamkis; russian: Овший Моисе́евич Наха́мкис; , in Odessa - 15 September 1941, in Saratov) was a Russian revolutionary,

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politician, journalist, editor and historian. Steklov joined the

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903 and became editor of ''

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'' of the

Petrograd Soviet The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies (russian: Петроградский совет рабочих и солдатских депутатов, ''Petrogradskiy soviet rabochikh i soldatskikh deputatov'') was a city council of P ...

after the Russian Revolution. He wrote biographies of

Mikhail Bakunin Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (; 1814–1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist, socialist and founder of collectivist anarchism. He is considered among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major founder of the revolutionary s ...

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 Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

and

Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1 ...

. Steklov was arrested in February 1938 amid the

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. 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,

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Translated by

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and

Eden Paul Maurice Eden Paul (27 September 1865, Sturminster Marshall – 1 December 1944) was a British socialist activist, physician, writer and translator.'Paul, Maurice Eden' in ''Who Was Who'' Early life Paul was the younger son of the publisher Charl ...

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