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Alexander Parvus
Alexander Israel Helphand, better known as Alexander Parvus, was a Russian-born Marxist theorist, journalist, and activist who became a prominent figure in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
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business · Russian-German Marxist theorist and revolutionary (1867–1924) · journalist · politician · entrepreneur · opinion journalist · also Alexander Parvus, Alexander Lvovich Parvus, Parvus
Born 27 August 1867 · Died 12 December 1924 · Q57552
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1924· 1 entry
Died 1924-12-12.
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1914· 1 entry
Parvus saw it as the global catastrophe he had predicted and an opportunity to bring about the downfall of Tsarism
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1904· 1 entry
Parvus published a series of articles in Iskra titled "War and Revolution," which argued that the war would lead to revolution in Russia and that the Russian proletariat would take over the role of the avant-garde of the
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1902· 1 entry
His publishing house had acquired the German rights to Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths
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1900· 1 entry
Was instrumental in persuading Vladimir Lenin, Julius Martov, and Alexander Potresov to publish their new newspaper, Iskra, in Germany
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1894· 1 entry
Adopted the pseudonym Parvus for an article in Die Neue Zeit attacking the Bavarian socialists' decision to support the state budget
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1892· 1 entry
With a series of articles in Vorwärts on the Russian famine of 1891–1892
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1891· 2 entries
Received his doctorate with a dissertation titled Technische Organisation der Arbeit, which examined the division of labor from a Marxist perspective
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Helphand decided against returning to Russia or joining the exiled Russian revolutionaries, whom he viewed as a "dead branch, cut off from the living body of the people"
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1886· 1 entry
Gelfand traveled abroad for the first time, hoping that "travel would resolve my political doubts"
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1885· 1 entry
At the age of 18, he spent a year "going to the people", working as a locksmith's apprentice and traveling between workshops to get to know the working class
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-08-27.
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