Grigory Aleksinsky

Grigory Alekseyevich Aleksinsky (1879–1967) was a prominent Russian Social Democrat and Bolshevik who was elected to the Second Duma in 1907.

Born to middle class parents in Daghestan, he became politically involved when he was a student at Moscow University, from which he was excluded. He joined Georgi Plekhanov’s Yedinstvo group, and following 1905 he was part of the tendency.^[1]

He subsequently became active with Vpered, on whose editorial board he served. However, he was critical of Alexander Bogdanov's concept of proletarian culture.^[2]

Publications

• Modern Russia (1913)
• Russia and the great war (1915)
• Russia and Europe (1917)

References

1. Glossary of People at Marxists.org accessed 18 October 2011
2. Biggart, John (1989), Alexander Bogdanov, Left-Bolshevism and the Proletkult 1904 - 1932, University of East Anglia, p. 150

• Guide to Grigorii Aleksinskii papers, 1895-1913 at Houghton Library, Harvard University