David Riazanov

David Riazanov or Ryazanov, born David Borisovich Goldendakh, was a Russian revolutionary, historian, bibliographer, Marxologist and archivist. He had been an old associate of Leon Trotsky. Riazanov founded the Marx–Engels Institute and edited the first large-scale effort to publish the collected works of these two founders of the modern socialist movement. Riazanov was a prominent victim of the Great Terror of the late 1930s.

Occupation

archivist, writer, trade unionist, politician

Position held

Member of the Russian Constituent Assembly

Citizenship

Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic

Born

March 10, 1870

Died

January 21, 1938