V. Volodarsky

V. Volodarsky (Russian: В. Володарский; December 11, 1891 – June 20, 1918) was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918.

Moisei Markovich Goldstein (later V. Volodarsky) was born to an ethnic Jewish family in Ostropol, in the Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine).

In 1905, he became involved in revolutionary activity within the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia, but soon joined Spilka, the Ukrainian Social Democratic organisation which aligned it self with the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. He was briefly imprisoned in 1908 and then was politically active in Volhynia. Then in 1911 he was exiled by the government to Arkhangelsk, but was included in the general amnesty of 1913. Continued persecution led him to emigrate to the United States, settling in Philadelphia. Here he became active in the International Trade Union of Tailors and the Socialist Party. During World War I, Volodarsky sided with the internationalist Mensheviks and moved to the left. In 1916-1917, he was a contributor to the New York-based newspaper of the Russian Socialist Federation, Novy Mir (New World), edited by Nikolai Bukharin.

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