Martov

This is the first biography of Martov the founder and leader of Menshevism. It records his revolutionary apprenticeship in Vilno and St Petersburg in 18936; his early friendship and partnership with Lenin in Siberian exile and on the revolutionary newspaper Iskra in Munich and London; the dramatic break-up of that partnership at the Second Congress of Russian Social Democrats in 1903 and the division between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks; the ensuing feud between Martov and Lenin; Martov''s role in the 1905 revolutions; his later activities as leader of the Menshevik-Internationalists then of the socialist opposition in Bolshevik Russia until 1920 and of the Mensheviks in exile until his death. Martov is shown as a noble and tragic figure of modern Russian and Jewish history and of international socialsm and as a key figure to the understanding of all three.