Died 1919-05-08.
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Vera Zasulich
Vera Ivanovna Zasulich was a Russian Marxist theorist and revolutionary. Born into impoverished nobility, Zasulich became involved in radical politics in the late 1860s. In 1878, she gained international renown for attempting to assassinate Fyodor Trepov, the governor of St. Petersburg, to protest his abuse of a political prisoner. In a high-profile case that highlighted the unpopularity of the ts…
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culture · Russian Marxist revolutionary (1849–1919) · writer · journalist · politician · editor · opinion journalist · literary critic · revolutionary · also Vera Zasulich, Vera Ivanovna Zasulich, Vera Ivánovna Zassúlich, Zasulich
Born 27 July 1849 · Died 8 May 1919 · Q234980
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1919· 1 entry
1914· 1 entry
Zasulich took a "defensist" position, strongly supporting the Russian war effort against what she saw as the threat of German imperialism
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1904· 1 entry
“The Organization, the Party, the Movement”
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1903· 2 entries
Sided with Julius Martov's Menshevik faction against Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks
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The fissures within the Iskra group erupted into a full-blown party split
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1900· 1 entry
These tensions led to the creation of a new party newspaper, Iskra ('The Spark'), which was intended to serve as the organizing center for a unified Russian Social Democratic party
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1897· 2 entries
Zasulich became embroiled in conflicts between the Emancipation of Labour group and a new, younger generation of Russian Marxists in the Union of Russian Social Democrats Abroad
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And Axelrod helped to prevent a rupture with younger revolutionaries from Russia, whose mission had been jeopardized by Plekhanov's intransigence
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1890· 1 entry
“Revolutionaries of Bourgeois Background”
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1889· 1 entry
Contracted tuberculosis, which afflicted her for the rest of her life
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1884· 1 entry
Translated Engels's Development of Scientific Socialism, but in her preface, she argued for a path to socialism based on a revitalised peasant commune, a view that was more populist than Marxist
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1883· 1 entry
Co-founded the Emancipation of Labour group, the first Russian Marxist organization, with Georgi Plekhanov and Pavel Axelrod
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1879· 1 entry
Over the question of terrorism, she rejected the pro-terrorist Narodnaya Volya ('People's Will') and joined the anti-terrorist Chyorny Peredel ('Black Repartition') faction, which advocated for continued propaganda work
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1878· 1 entry
Gained international renown for attempting to assassinate Fyodor Trepov, the governor of St
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1866· 1 entry
Her mother sent her to a private pension in Moscow to train for this profession
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1849· 1 entry
Born 1849-07-27.
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