Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov

Russian historian

Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1873

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 15-Sep-1941

Profession: writer, politician, historian, journalist, opinion journalist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov (Russian: ???? ?????????? ???????; born Ovshey Moiseyevich Nakhamkis; Russian: ????? ?????´???? ????´????; 27 August [O.S.
15 August] 1873, Odessa - 15 September 1941 Saratov) was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and historian.
Steklov joined the Bolshevik Party in 1903, was editor of Izvestia of the Petrograd Soviet, and was a member of the Central Committee after the Revolution.
He wrote biographies of Mikhail Bakunin and Alexander Herzen, as well as commentary on Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.
Arrested in February 1938 amid the Great Purge, he died in prison.
He was posthumously rehabilitated.