Fyodor Ilyich Dan

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Fyodor Ilyich Dan

Fyodor Ilyich Dan ( Russian Фёдор Ильич Дан , actually Fyodor Ilyich Gurwitsch ; born October 19, 1871 in Saint Petersburg , † January 22, 1947 in New York ) was a Russian doctor and leading Menshevik .

Dan became a member of the Social Democratic Party in 1894 and, in 1896, was the founder of the " Combat League for the Liberation of the Working Class " together with Lenin and Martov . After the February Revolution in 1917 he was a member of the Petrograd Soviet , after the October Revolution he fought against the government of the Bolsheviks . He was arrested in 1921 and expelled from the Soviet Union in 1922 . He then lived in Berlin (where he published his memoirs in 1922), Paris and New York.

Fyodor Dan was married to Martow's sister Lydia Cederbaum . Their daughter Anna died in childhood.

Works

  • Dva goda skitanij 1919-1921 , Berlin, Hermann Verlag, 1922.
    • English translation: Two Years of Wandering , ed. and over. by Francis King, London, Lawrence & Wishart, 2016, ISBN 1-910448-72-9 .
  • Proischoždenie bolʹševizma. K istorii Demokratieičeskich i socialističeskich idej v Rossii posle osvoboždenija krestʹjan , New York, Novaja Demokratieija, 1946.
    • German translation: The origin of Bolshevism. On the history of the democratic and socialist idea in Russia after the peasant liberation , trans. by Agnes Schwarzschild, Hannover, Dietz, 1968.
  • Fedor I. Dan and Otto Bauer : Briefwechsel (1934-1938) , ed. by Hartmut Rüdiger Peter, Frankfurt a. M., Campus, 1999, ISBN 3-593-36313-5 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Article on peoples.ru Retrieved May 19, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Article Fyodor Ilyich Dan in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D018977~2a%3D~2b%3DFjodor%20Iljitsch%20Dan
  3. ↑ a b Article in the Great Biographical Encyclopedia.Retrieved May 19, 2011
  4. ↑ biography on hrono.ru

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personal data
SURNAME Dan, Fyodor Ilyich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dan, Theodor; Gurwitsch, Fyodor Ilyich (real name); Дан, Фёдор Ильич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian doctor and Menshevik
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1947
Place of death New York City