Mikhail Rafailovich Gots (1866-1906) was a Russian revolutionary, member of 'The People's Will' ('Narodnaya Volya') and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party

Socialist-Revolutionary Party

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 (PSR). He as the older brother of Avram R. Gots

Avram Gots

Avram Rafailovich Gots was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary leader, active in the Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.- Biography :...

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Biography

Mikhail Gots was born in Moscow into a wealthy Jewish family. He studied at the University of Moscow and joined 'The People's Will' in 1884. In October of 1886 he was arrested and banished to Siberia. In 1889 he took part in a convicts' uprising in Yakutsk and was sentended to hard labour in Siberia for life. In 1895 an amnesty enabled Gots to emigrate to Paris, where he collaborated with N.S. Rusanov

Nikolai Rusanov

Nikolay Sergeyevich Rusanov , 1859, Oryol — July 28, 1939, Berne), also known under the pseudonyms of K. Tarasov and N. Kudrin, was a Russian revolutionary who connected the revolutionary populist movement of the 1870s with the revolutionary parties of the early twentieth century,...

 and I.A. Rubanovich

Ilya Rubanovich

Rubanovich, Ilya Alfonsovich Ilya Rubanovich was a Russian revolutionary who joined 'The People's Will' in the 1880s. In 1881 that group assassinated Tsar Aleksandr II. During the repression which followed, Rubanovich fled abroad, eventually settling in Paris, France, and becoming a French citizen...

 in editing the PSR newspaper Herald of the Russian Revolution (Vestnik Russkoi Revoliutsii). With V.M. Chernov, Gots also edited the PSR's theoretical journal, Revolutionary Russia (Revoliutsionnaia Rossiia). Gots was also instrumental in establishing relations between the PSR and French and Italian socialist parties. In 1901, the Russian government demanded M.R. Gots' extradition from Italy. This led to a diplomatic crisis and to the cancellation of the Tsar's proposed visit to Italy. M.R. Gots died of cancer in 1906.