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in Stockholm , Sweden , May 1917. Pavel Axelrod, Julius Martov and Alexander Martinov ]]
Pavel Borisovich Akselrod ( 1850 - 1928 ) was a Russia n Marxist revolutionary.

Raised in Chernigov , a small provincial town in the Russian Empire (currently Ukraine ), Akselrod was the son of a poor Jew ish innkeeper. Influenced by Mikhail Bakunin in his youth, he remained an Idealist even after adopting the Marxist philosophy of Historical Materialism . Akselrod co-founded the Marxist group Emancipation Of Labor in Switzerland with his lifelong friend Georgi Plekhanov and Vera Zasulich in 1883 . In 1900 , Axelrod, Plekhanov and Zasulich joined forces with younger revolutionary Marxists Julius Martov , Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Potresov and the six edited '' Iskra '', a Marxist newspaper, in 1900-1903. When ''Iskra'' supporters split at the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1903, Akselrod sided with the Menshevik faction against Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik s.


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  • Abraham Ascher. ''Pavel Axelrod and the Development of Menshevism'', Harvard University Press , 1972, ISBN 0674659058, 420p.



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