Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov
Yury Steklov on a 1973 Soviet postal stamp.
Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Стеклов; born Ovshey Moiseyevich Nakhamkis; Russian: Овший Моисе́евич Наха́мкис; 27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1873, Odessa - 15 September 1941) was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and historian.
Steklov joined the Bolshevik Party in 1903, was editor of Izvestia of the Petrograd Soviet, and was a member of the Central Committee after the Revolution.[1] He wrote biographies of Mikhail Bakunin[2] and Alexander Herzen, as well as commentary on Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Arrested in February 1938 amid the Great Purge, he died in prison. He was posthumously rehabilitated.
Works
- Michael Bakunin: ein Lebensbild, Stuttgart: J.H.W. Dietz, 1913
- A. J. Herzen: eine Biographie, Berlin: A. Seehof, 1920.
- History of the first International, London: M. Lawrence, [1928]. Translated by Cedar and Eden Paul from the 3rd Russian ed., with notes from the 4th ed.