David Riazanov

David Riazanov
Дави́д Ряза́нов
Riazanov in 1923
Born
David Borisovich Goldendakh

(1870-03-10)10 March 1870
Died21 January 1938(1938-01-21) (aged 67)
Cause of deathExecution

David Riazanov (Russian: Дави́д Ряза́нов), born David Borisovich Goldendakh (Russian: Дави́д Бори́сович Гольдендах; 10 March 1870 – 21 January 1938), was a Russian revolutionary, historian, bibliographer and archivist. He had been an old associate of Leon Trotsky.[1][2] Riazanov founded the Marx–Engels Institute and edited the first large-scale effort to publish the collected works of these two founders of the modern socialist movement. Riazanov was a prominent victim of the Great Terror of the late 1930s.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Longley was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Deutscher, Isaac (5 January 2015). The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky. Verso Books. p. 1206. ISBN 978-1-78168-721-5.