Pavel Borisovič Aksel'rod Papers

Period (1858, 1870) 1879-1929.
Total size   3.12 m
Consultation Not restricted.
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Biography

Full name: Pavel Borisovič Aksel'rod; born near Pochep, Ukraine, Russia 1849/1850, died in Berlin 1928; Menshevik leader; Narodnik in the seventies; from the early eighties one of the leaders of Russian (Marxist) social democracy; lived in Switzerland from 1875; formed with Georgij Plechanov and Vera Zasulič the Gruppa Osvoboždenie Truda; coeditor of Iskra; after the split in the Rossijskaja Social-Demokratičeskaja Rabočaja Partija (RSDRP) in 1903 ideologist of the Menshevik faction; editor of Golos social'demokrata 1908-1911; spokesman for the 'Internationalists' during the First World War; outspoken opponent of the October Revolution.

Content

Letters received by Aksel'rod from some 400 correspondents, including Rafail Abramovič 1920-1927, August Bebel 1900-1905, Grigorij Binštok 1919, 1925-1928, Fedor and Lidija Dan 1902-1927, Petr Garvi 1912, 1925-1927, Robert Grimm 1915, Karl Kautsky 1886-1927, D. Kol'cov 1896-1905, Julij O. Martov 1901-1916, 1920-1922, Georgij Plechanov 1886-1897 (copies), Rozalija M. Plechanova 1898-1910, 1923-1926, Aleksandr Potresov 1900-1928, Samuil Ščupak 1916-1924, Iraklij Tsereteli 1914, 1919-1928, Vladimir and Emma Vojtinskij 1920-1928, Clara Zetkin 1891-1893, 1897-1905, 1911, 1914;

drafts or copies of letters sent by Aksel'rod to some 60 correspondents; other correspondence 1882-1928; letters received by Evgenija A. Landyševa 1922-1929; personal documents; articles and fragments and variants of articles by Aksel'rod (1870) 1882-1927; handwritten and typed manuscripts and various variants of part one and the partly unpublished part two of his memoirs 'Perežitoe i peredumannoe';

drafts of speeches; notebooks with extracts, notes, etc.; manuscripts by others; resolutions and other documents from and about the RSDRP 1904-1926; (draft) resolutions, circular letters and other documents of the Second International 1913-1927.

Processing information

Inventory made by Hermien van Veen in 1996

Alternate Form of Material

55 safety microfilms