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Book SynopsisThis is the first biography of Martov, the founder and leader of Menshevism. It records his life story from his revolutionary apprenticeship in Vilno and St Petersburg in 18936, through the division between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks and the feud between Martov and Lenin, to the Mensheviks in exile and Martov's death.
Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; 1. A grandson of the Haskalah; 2. Revolutionary apprenticeship; 3. Fighting companionship; 4. The parting of the ways; 5. 1905 - a 'Bourgeois' Revolution; 6. The missed opportunity; 7. War and Revolution; 8. 'Straightening-out' the Bolshevik Revolution; 9. The fiasco of 'socialist intervention'; 10. 'The Hamlet of democratic socialism'?; Bibliography; Index.
