ANGARSK Nikolai Semenovich

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(6 (18). XII. 1873, Smolensk - 28.VII.1941, Moscow).
Born in the family of the merchant - educator with. A. Klestova, opened in Smolensk, a bookstore and public library. Repeatedly arrested, the site links (at p. Angara) chose a pseudonym under which became known. The main occupations were education and its book publishing. During the revolution of 1905-07 he. - One of the organizers of publications Lectures and abstracts on the program and Tactics of Social Democracy (Moscow), then a series of brochures for the general reader 'books for all' and 'Calendar for all' (St. Petersburg). Undertook publication of 'Capital' Marx in translation and. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov, first collected works in. I. Lenin's 'In 12 years'. He organized a cooperative publisher Writers. After the October Revolution, 1917. led the magazine 'Creativity', publishers 'Nedra', edited collections. In foreign travel has done a great job of collecting the documents, much replenishing the Soviet archives. His works were published on the history of the Bolshevik Party, literature, ethics, etc.