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David Riazanov

Russian revolutionary (1870–1938)

David Riazanov or Ryazanov (Russian: Давид Рязанов), born David Borisovich Goldendakh (Russian: Дави́д Бори́сович Гольдендах; 10 March 1870 – 21 January 1938), was a Russian revolutionary, historian, bibliographer, Marxologist and archivist. He had been an old associate of Leon Trotsky.²

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Born Mar 10, 1870, died Jan 21, 1938.¹

About

Riazanov founded the Marx–Engels Institute and edited the first large-scale effort to publish the collected works of these two founders of the modern socialist movement. Riazanov was a prominent victim of the Great Terror of the late 1930s.

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Companies

Marx-Engels-Lenin InstituteFounder¹¹

Early life and education

David Borisovich Goldendakh was born 10 March 1870 to a Jewish father and a Russian mother in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). At the age of 15, David Riazanov joined the ranks of the Narodnik revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the autocracy of the Russian tsar. Riazanov attended secondary school in Odessa but was expelled in 1886 due to "hopeless inability."

Riazanov traveled abroad in 1889 and 1891 where he met various Russian Marxists who were building their revolutionary organizations there. Following his second trip, Riazanov was arrested in October 1891 at the Austrian-Russian border by the Okhrana, the tsarist secret police, who had long suspected his revolutionary activity. Riazanov spent 15 months in prison awaiting trial, at which he was convicted and sentenced to an additional four years of katorga (exile and hard labor). Following completion of his term, Riazanov was subject to 3 years of administrative exile under police supervision in the city of Kishinev, Bessarabia (today part of Moldova).

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Career

Occupation: historian, revolutionary, politician, trade unionist, communist, writer, archivist.⁶

Date not recordedWorked at Ural State University³
Date not recordedFounded Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute⁴
Date not recordedMember of the Russian Constituent Assembly⁵

Personal life

BornMar 10, 1870, Odesa⁷
DiedJan 21, 1938, Saratov⁸
CitizenshipSoviet Union, Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic⁹

Awards

1927Lenin Prize¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of the Red Banner of Labour¹⁰

Sources

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WikidataMarx-Engels-Lenin Institute, Founder
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