Nikolai Ivanovich Iordansky

Nikolai Iwanowitsch Iordanski ( Russian: Николай Иванович Иорданский ; born December 4, 1876 , Novochopjorsk ; † December 29, 1928 , Moscow ) was a Soviet ambassador.

Life

The signing of the Italian-Russian treaty, which includes the recognition of Russia by Italy. In the middle Mussolini signs the treaty for Italy, to the right of him Iordanski, who signed for Russia. February 7, 1924

Iordanski was the son of a clerk and worked as a journalist and publicist. Iordanski was active from 1899 in the Russian social democratic movement of the Mensheviks as a confidante of Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov . In 1905 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Petersburg Soviet . From 1909 to 1917 he edited the magazine “Sowremenny Mir” (World of the Present) and was co-editor of “Zvezda” (Stern). After the February Revolution of 1917 he was commissioner of the provisional government on the Southwest Front ( partitions of Poland , Ukraine ).

After the October Revolution he emigrated to Helsingfors , where he published the pro-Soviet Russian-language newspaper Put (The Way). He became a member of the RKP and employed in the Narkompros . He was later employed in the Foreign Ministry headed by Leon Trotsky . Trotsky describes Iordanski in war in Europe as the editorial director of the magazine “ Mir Boschi ” (“World of God”). He was a fanatical social-chauvinist during the First World War and turned left during the October Revolution.

He was employed at Gosisdat .

Iordanski called Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy an apostle of the social revolution.

predecessor	Office	successor
Wazlaw Worowski	Soviet ambassador in Rome July 23, 1923 - March 7, 1924	Konstantin Yurenew

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leon Trotsky: Europe at War. 1998, p. 522
2. ↑ Госиздат: from 1919 to 1930 publisher of the Soviet government
3. ↑ Ludwig Steindorff: Party and Churches in the Early Soviet State, p. 330
4. ^ Eberhard Dieckmann : Russian contemporaries about Tolstoy. 1990