Boris A. Kol'cov-Ginzburg Papers

Period 1898-1901
Total size   0.12 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

True name: Boris Abramovič Ginzburg; pseudonym D. Kol'cov; social democrat; in the 1880s adherent of Narodnaja Volja; left Russia in 1893; played an important role in the social democrat emigration around the turn of the century; secretary of the Sojuz Russkich Socialdemokratov zagranicej 1895-1898; contributed to Rabotnik, Iskra and Zarja; Menshevik after the split of 1903; returned to Russia in 1905; party activist and trade unionist.

Content

Documents relating to the split between the Sojuz Russkich Socialdemokratov zagranicej and the Gruppa Osvoboždenie Truda 1900 and n.d.; notebooks with excerpts, notes, articles by others; leaflets of the Rossijskaja Social-Demokratičeskaja Rabočaja Partija (RSDRP).