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


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About Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov

  • 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.

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