Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov
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 - 15 September 1941) was a Russian revolutionary
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, journalist and historian.

Steklov joined the Bolshevik Party in 1903, was editor of Izvestia
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of the Petrograd Soviet
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, and was a member of the Central Committee after the Revolution
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. He wrote biographies of Bakunin and Herzen, as well as commentary on Marx and Lenin. Arrested in 1938 amid the Great Purge
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, he died in prison.

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, [1928]. Translated by Cedar
    Cedar Paul
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     and Eden Paul
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    from the 3rd Russian ed., with notes from the 4th ed.

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