Martov: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat

by Getzler and Israel Getzler

Book Overview

This is the first biography of Martov, the founder and leader of Menshevism. It records his revolutionary apprenticeship in Vilno and St Petersburg in 1893-6; his early friendship and partnership with Lenin in Siberian exile and on the revolutionary newspaper Iskra in Munich and London; the dramatic break-up of that partnership at the Second Congress of Russian Social Democrats in 1903 and the division between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks; the ensuing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521526027
• ISBN13: 9780521526029
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"