Vera Zasulich

Vera Zasulich
Вера Засулич
Portrait photograph of Vera Zasulich
Vera Ivanovna Zasulich
Born(1849-08-08)8 August 1849
Died8 May 1919(1919-05-08) (aged 69)
NationalityRussian
Political partyMensheviks

Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (Вера Ивановна Засулич; 8 August [O.S. 27 July] 1849 – 8 May 1919) was a Russian socialist activist, Menshevik writer and revolutionary.[1] She is widely known for her correspondence with Karl Marx, in which she put into question the necessity of a capitalist industrialisation prior to socialism, in the context of the fact that there already were living farmer communities in Russia that had developed practices and cultures that had a communist component.[2]

  1. ^ Queen of the Neighbourhood; Queen of the Neighbourhood Collective (2010). Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils. PM Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-60486-200-3. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Marx-Zasulich Correspondence 1881". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 31 January 2024.