Pyotr Lavrovich Lavrov

Pyotr Lavrov

Pyotr Lavrowitsch Lavrov ( Russian Пётр Лаврович Лавров ; pseudonym : Mirtow, Kedrow; * June 2 ^July / June 14,  1823 ^reg. In Melechowo in the Pskov governorate ; † January 25, ^July / February 6,  1900 ^reg. In Paris ) was a Russian poet , publicist and eminent theorist of the Narodniki movement .

Life

Lavrov was educated at home and then attended artillery school until 1842. Two years later he became a mathematics teacher at the same school and later at the Artillery Academy.

Lavrov joined the revolutionary movement in 1862. After the Karakosov assassination, Lavrov was deported to the Urals . In 1870 Lavrov escaped from exile with the help of Lopatin and went to Paris. There he met Varlin and through his support he joined the International Workers' Association and in the same year took part in the Paris Commune . During the Paris Commune, the former officer Lavrov organized departments of the Communards. Lavrov stayed in London until 1872, then returned to Paris for a short time. At the beginning of 1873 he went to Zurich to take over the management of the Russian social revolutionary newspaper Vperjod (Forward), which was smuggled into Russia . He came into conflict with Mikhail Bakunin , who was also looking for contact with Russian youth, but was convinced that everything must be done to bring about the social revolution as quickly as possible. Lavrov, on the other hand, saw the education and intellectual preparation of the masses for the revolution as the path that Russian youth should take. The Vperyod had a great effect on the Russian youth, but the newspaper and the ideas Lavrov lost in Russia after the release of Bakunin's book of law and anarchy in influence by Russian exiles, however Lavrov ideas were extremely well received.

After the assassination attempt on Alexander II , he sought contact with the association Narodnaja Wolja ("People's Will") and was active as a journalist. Pyotr Lavrov died in Paris on February 14, 1900.

Think

In contrast to his contemporaries, who in some cases openly advocated terrorism, Lavrov was always convinced that the realization of socialist ideals could only be the ultimate goal of a long historical process.

His most famous publication is the Historical Letters , which were very popular among Russian socialists.

Works

• The Paris Commune of March 18, 1871. Events - Influence - Lessons (= classic of the social revolt . Vol. 8). Unrast-Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-89771-905-3 .
• Historical letters. Translated from the Russian by S. Dawidow and with an introduction by Ch. Rappoport. Berlin / Bern, Academic Publishing House for Social Sciences, 1901 ( table of contents )

literature

• Peter Lavrov . In: Supplement to “ Wahren Jacob ” No. 184, 1893, pp. 1525–1526. Digitized
• Alan Kimball: The Russian Past and the Socialist Future in the Thought of Peter Lavrov. In: Slavic Review. Vol. 30, No. 1, 1971, ISSN  0037-6779 , pp. 28-44.
• Lavrov - Years of Emigration . Edited, annoteed and introduced by Boris Sapir . D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Boston 1974.
  • Vol. I. Lavrov and Lopatin (Correspondence 1870–1883)
  • Vol. II. Other Correspondance of Lavrov and Varia

Web links

Commons : Pyotr Lavrov  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Petr Lavrovič Lavrov in the catalog of the German National Library