Grigory Aleksinsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Grigory Aleksinsky

Russian politician and journalist (1879-1967)

Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1879

Place of Birth: Botlikh (rural locality), Republic of Dagestan, Russia

Date of Death: 04-Oct-1967

Profession: politician, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Grigory Aleksinsky

  • Grigory Alekseyevich Aleksinsky (1879–1967) was a prominent Russian Social Democrat and Bolshevik who was elected to the Second Duma in 1907. Born to middle class parents in Daghestan, he became politically involved when he was a student at Moscow University, from which he was excluded.
  • He was a member of Georgi Plekhanov’s Yedinstvo group, when he met Lenin in St Petersburg in December 1905 and joined the Bolsheviks.
  • Lenin's wife, Krupskaya recalled going for a pleasant walk in the Finnish countryside with Lenin, Aleksinsky and others in spring 1906.
  • Later, they were neighbours in Finland.
  • In 1907, Alexinsky was elected to the Second Duma, where he proved to be a witty and effective orator.
  • He escaped abroad to avoid arrest when the Duma was dissolved, and settled in Austria.
  • Lenin hoped that he would take charge of smuggling illegal Bolshevik literature into Russia, but he "was quite unfitted for such work" In May1907, he was a Bolshevik delegate at the London Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, at which both the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions were represented.
  • Stalin, another delegate, later wrote a report of the Congress in which he alleged "the majority of Mensheviks were of Jews..." and cited Alexinsky as having joked that "it wouldn't be a bad idea for us Bolsheviks to organise a pogrom." Alexinsky joined Lenin in Geneva, but fell out with him and in 1909 joined the ultra left Vpered, group, led by Alexander Bogdanov.
  • On the outbreak of war, he veered sharply to the right, becoming an outspoken supporter of the Russian war effort.
  • Leon Trotsky, who described Alexinsky as a "shrieking orator and passionate lover of intrigue" alleged that he made a practice of accusing opponents of the war of being paid German agents, and was expelled from the Paris Association of Foreign Journalists as a "dishonest slanderer".
  • He returned to Russia in 1917, after the February revolution, and in July produced documents to support his contention that Lenin was a German agent.
  • He escaped abroad in 1918, and joined the Russian National Committee, chaired by Vladimir Burtsev.
  • In 1936, he published a story in a Russian emigre newspaper claiming that in 1905, Lenin had had an affair with a wealthy Russian woman named Elizabeth K., which he resumed in France in 1910.
  • This story was taken seriously by one of Lenin's early biographers.
  • David Shub, though it has since been dismissed as a fabrication.
  • Alexinsky offered to sell the Soviet government, and then Columbia University, what he claimed were Lenin's letters to Elizabeth K., adding the new detail that she was his wife.
  • He was not able to arrange a sale.

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