David Riazanov was a prominent victim of the Great Terror of the late 1930s.
18 Facts About David Riazanov
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David Riazanov Borisovich Goldendakh was born 10 March 1870 to a Jewish father and a Russian mother in Odesa, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.
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David Riazanov traveled abroad in 1889 and 1891 where he met various Russian Marxists who were building their revolutionary organizations there.
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David Riazanov's group was excluded from the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party that was held in London and Brussels in the summer of 1903.
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In 1903, David Riazanov became the first writer to introduce the concept of permanent revolution to the political literature of Russian Marxism when he published three studies in Geneva under the title Materials on the Program of the Workers' Party.
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David Riazanov returned to Russia shortly after the start of the 1905 Russian Revolution, going to work in the trade union movement in the capital city of Saint Petersburg.
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The uprising ended in failure by the revolutionaries and David Riazanov was arrested and sentenced to deportation in 1907.
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Shortly after his 1907 conviction, David Riazanov emigrated to the West.
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David Riazanov was a participant in the 1915 Zimmerwald Conference of the Second International.
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David Riazanov returned to Russia following the February Revolution in 1917.
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Together with the rest of the Mezhraiontsy, David Riazanov joined the Bolshevik Party headed by Vladimir Lenin in August 1917.
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In 1918, David Riazanov helped to establish the Socialist Academy of Social Sciences, an institute later known as the Communist Academy.
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In 1920 David Riazanov attended the 2nd World Congress of the Communist International as a member of the Russian delegation.
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David Riazanov attended the 4th All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions in May 1921, at which he spoke in favor of the independence of the unions from the Communist Party.
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In 1921 David Riazanov established the Marx-Engels Institute, which became one of the main institutions of Soviet philosophy and history.
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In 1929, David Riazanov was elected to the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
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Under suspicion following the trial regarding the Union Bureau, David Riazanov was dismissed as director of the Marx-Engels Institute in February 1931.
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David Riazanov was rehabilitated in political terms in 1989 as part of the glasnost campaign of Mikhail Gorbachev.