- Leo Deutsch
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name=Leo Deutsch
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birth_date=birth date|1855|9|26|mf=y
birth_place=Russia
death_date=death date and age|1941|8|4|1855|9|26|mf=y
death_place=Russia Lev Grigoriyevich Deich, also known as Leo Deutsch ( _ru. Лев Григорьевич Дейч) (
September 26 ,1855 -August 4 ,1941 ) was aRussia nrevolutionary , member of theRussian Social Democratic Labour Party and one of the leaders of theMensheviks .The son of a
Jew ishmerchant , after converting to Marxism, he spent his time distributingpropaganda insouthern Russia .His actions let to his arrested in 1875 but escaped from custody and over the next few years attempted to organize a
peasant insurrection .Deutsch joined the Zemlya i volya (Land and Liberty), joining the
Black Repartition once it split into two factions. supporting a socialist propaganda campaign among workers and peasants. The majority of members, joined Narodnaya Volya (People's Will), the group that favouredterrorism .In 1880 Deutsch and other leaders of the Black Repartition group, including
George Plekhanov ,Vera Zasulich andPavel Axelrod went to live inGeneva , Forming theLiberation of Labour group in 1883.Deutsch was arrested in
Germany 1884 and extradited for trial by a Russian court for a terrorist offence he had committed in 1876. Found guilty he was sentenced 13 years hard labour inSiberia .Deutsch managed to escape from prison in 1901 and became active in the
Social Democratic Labour Party . At the Second Congress of the Social Democratic Party inLondon .Deutsch joined
George Plekhanov ,Pavel Axelrod ,Leon Trotsky ,Irakli Tsereteli ,Moisei Uritsky ,Noi Zhordania andFedor Dan in supportingJules Martov creating theMenshevik s.During the
1905 Revolution Deich returned to Russia but was arrested and imprisoned. However, on the way to Siberia he escaped and made his way to London where he lived for the next eleven years.After the
February Revolution Deutsch returned toPetrograd and joined George Plekhanov in editingEdinstvo (Unity). He also wrote his memoirs and edited a volume of documents associated with the Liberation of Labour group. Deutsch died in 1941.References
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Leopold H. Haimson . "The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries", Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-521-26325-5, p.472, note 6.
* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSdeich.htm Spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk History on Russian Revolutionaries]
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