GLASS Yuri Mikhailovich

Steklov, Yuri Mikhailovich (real name - Ovshy Moiseevich Nakhamkes) (15.8.1873, Odessa - 15.9.1941), a party activist, publicist. Son tradesman. Since 1893 has become actively involved in social-democratic movement, then a member of the RSDLP, Bolshevik. In 1894, he escaped from exile abroad. In 1900, met with VI. Lenin and joined the "Iskra". In 1905 he returned to Russia, spoke with articles in various publications of the Bolshevik. In 1910 he sent abroad. He taught at the Party School in Longjumeau (near Paris). In 1917, a member of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, was standing on the positions of "revolutionary defencism". In 1918, he worked on the commission for drafting the Constitution of the RSFSR. Since October. 1917 editor of the newspaper "Izvestia". During the Civil War led agitation trains went to the front. On Nov.. Before 1918. Central Council of the Union of Journalists. In 1918 issued a series of works on pre-parried in the history of international communist vein Sotsialieticheskogo movement aimed at popularizing Marxism. In 1925, removed from his post as editor of "Izvestia". In 1928, before. Superintendence of the Committee on educational and academic institutions in the USSR Central Executive Committee. One of the founders of the magazines "New World", "Red Virgin Soil," led by the magazine "Soviet construction". The author of works on the history of Marxism, in t.ch. "Internationale, 1984-1914" (1918), "Karl Marx" (1918), "The fighters for socialism" (1923-24), in which the main task set popularization of Marxism, often reaching its vulgarization. In the works of the Russian revolutionary movement Steklov, also sacrificing factual material, announced NG. Chernyshevskogo almost consistent Marxist, and MA. Bakunin, the founder of the ideology of the Russian Social -. In Feb.. 1,938 arrested. Died in prison. He was posthumously rehabilitated.