Deitch Lev

son of a contractor-Jew, born in 1855, Mr.. He studied at the Kiev school, but in 1874, the transition to the last class, left school and went to "the people" as an advocate. In 1876, Mr.. served as a volunteer in Kiev, took part in this time in release from prison of a student Lurie and was scheduled to appear before the court for unauthorized absence, but escaped from custody. In the same year, Deitch and Malinka committed in Odessa attempted murder of a spy Gorinovich, . struck him several times with a knife and, . counting dead, . face doused with sulfuric acid, . to hinder the identification of the murdered, but died Gorinovich, . and all participants were subsequently detained cases,
. In 1877, Mr.. Deitch with Bokhanovsky Stefanovich helped organize Chigirinsky county peasant plot, based on a fraudulent royal charter for general redistribution of land. In August, the plot was exposed, was arrested Sept. 4 Stefanovich and his comrades, but all three pre-trial escaped from prison with the help of Frolenko that for a device that did escape the prison warden. After splitting the Populist organization Deitch joined the party "Black Repartition" and soon left Russia. In 1883, Mr.. he, together with Plekhanov, Axelrod, IN. Zasulich formed the first social-democratic group "Emancipation of Labor". In 1884, Mr.. accident, was arrested in Freiburg (Baden), and Bismarck, at the request of the Russian government, Russia has issued his order to his trial as a criminal, just for the attempt to Gorinovich. The court sentenced him to prison for 13 years, 4 months. In 1896, Mr.. Deitch went into exile in 1901. fled abroad in Japan and North America and then joined the Social Democratic Party, adhered to the faction "Mensheviks". After the Manifesto of October 17 1905. illegally returned to Russia, in January 1906. he was again arrested and exiled by administrative order in Turukhansk Region. On the road to exile, he again fled and now lives in the United States. Different episodes of his stormy life Deitch repeatedly described in the press. A separate edition: "16 years in Siberia" (1903, in German and in English, in Russian - in Geneva, 1905, and in St. Petersburg, 1906; translated into all languages), "Four escape" ( 2-d collection "Knowledge", translated into foreign languages). In the realm of memories also include a series of essays, published in the Journal of Europe "in 1910 - 1912 he. Deitch helped Professor A. Tun in the drafting of the famous story of the Russian Revolution and wrote the foreword to one of the Russian translation of this book. In 1899 - 1900 years has been the de facto editor of "Amur Region, in 1911. editor of the New York newspaper for the Russian workers "New World".