Leo Deutsch
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September 26, 1855 Tulchyn, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | August 5, 1941 (aged 85) Moscow, Soviet Union |
Lev Grigorievich Deutsch, also known as Leo Deutsch (Russian: Лев Григо́рьевич Дейч) (1855 – 1941) was a Russian revolutionary who was an early member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and one of the leaders of that organization's Menshevik factions.
Lev Grigorievich Deutsch was born September 25, 1855 in Tulchyn, Russia, the son of a Jewish merchant.
After converting to Marxism, he spent his time distributing propaganda in southern Russia.
His actions led to his being arrested in 1875, but he 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 favoured terrorism.
In 1880 Deutsch and other leaders of the Black Repartition group, including George Plekhanov, Vera Zasulich and Pavel Axelrod went to live in Geneva, forming the Emancipation of Labour group in 1883.
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