Mikhail Liber

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Mikhail Liber (May 24, 1880 Old Style-October 4, 1937, born Mikhail Isaakovich Gol'dman) was a leader of the Jewish Bund.

Liber represented the Jewish Bund at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in August 1903, which resulted in the Bund leaving the party over the issue of organizational autonomy. In 1906, Liber represented the Bund at the 4th, Unification, Congress of the RSDLP in Stockholm when the Bund rejoined the party. At the 5th Congress in London in 1907 he was elected to the RSDLP'd Central Committee.

Liber was repeatedly arrested by the Soviet secret police from 1923 until 1937. The last arrest, in March 1937, resulted in his execution on October 4, 1937, at the height of the Great Purge.