W. Volodarsky

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W. Volodarsky

W. Volodarsky ( Russian В. Володарский ) was the code name of Mojsej Markovich Goldstein (Russian Моисей Маркович Гольдштейн ; born December 11 . Jul / 23. December  1891 greg. In Ostropol , Russian empire ; † 20th June 1918 in Petrograd ) a Russian revolutionary . Like other Russian revolutionaries, he was not known by his birth name, but by his code name W. Volodarskij, whereby the "W." no known meaning is assigned.

Life

W. Volodarskij was born as Mojsej Markowitsch Goldstein in Ostropol , Ukraine in 1891 . His father was an impoverished craftsman. Volodarsky attended grammar school, but had to leave it in the 6th grade because of "political unreliability" . In 1905 Volodarsky initially joined the Bundists , but shortly afterwards switched to the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party . From 1908 to 1911 he was arrested several times for his revolutionary activities and finally exiled to Mesen in the Arkhangelsk governorate . After his release in 1913, he emigrated to the United States , where he joined the Socialist Party . During the First World War he represented increasingly leftist positions and joined the internationalist wing of the Mensheviks . In the USA he worked first in Philadelphia as an agitator , propagandist and journalist and finally in New York City for the magazine Nowy Mir (New World) published by Nikolai Bukharin and Alexandra Kollontai . After the February Revolution , Volodarsky returned to Russia in May 1917, where he joined the Meshrajonzy group. During the VI. At the RSDLP party congress in July / August 1917, he then joined the Bolsheviks and was first elected to the Petrograd Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and in September to the Petrograd City Duma. After the October Revolution , he was elected to the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. A talented speaker and agitator, he was also appointed press commissioner for Petrograd and the northern region and editor of Krasnaya Gazeta .

In June 1918 Volodarsky fell victim to an assassination attempt planned by the Social Revolutionary Grigory Semyonov and carried out by N. Sergeev . Volodarsky was buried on the Field of Mars in Saint Petersburg. The Volodarsky Bridge in Saint Petersburg, the city of Volodarsk in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the urban-type settlement of Volodarske and Volodarsk-Volynskyj in the Ukraine were named after him.

literature

  • Pomorskaja ėnciklopedija: Tom 1 Istorija Archangel'skogo severa . Pomorskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet, Arkhangelsk 2001, ISBN 5-88086-147-3 , p. 107

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Volodarsky website funeral-spb.narod.ru

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Volodarsky, W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volodarsky, W .; Goldstein, Mojsej Markowitsch; Волода́рский, В. (Russian); Гольдштейн, Моисей Маркович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Staryj Ostropil
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1918
Place of death Petrograd