About B. I. Gorev
Lived 1874 – 1937 (aged 63). B. I. Gorev was a Russian opinion journalist, politician and historian.
Boris Isaakovich Gorev (4 December 1874, Vilno – 27 December 1937) was a revolutionary and writer who was active in both he Bolshevik and Menshevik wings of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party.
He was the son of Isaak Meerovich Goldman. His younger brother Mikhail Goldman (aka Mark Liber) was a founding member of the General Jewish Labour Bund ("the Bund"). His sister Julia Goldman married Felix Dzerzhinsky, but she died of tuberculosis in 1904.
He was arrested in 1937 during the great purge, and was then shot.
Works Materialism: Philosophy of the Proletariat 1920 Moscow. A Chinese translation by Qu Qiubai was published which Mao Tse-tung read.
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Who was B. I. Gorev?
Russian revolutionary (1874–1937)
When was B. I. Gorev born?
B. I. Gorev was born on 4 December 1874 in Vilnius.
When did B. I. Gorev die?
B. I. Gorev died on 27 December 1937.
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B. I. Gorev was an opinion journalist, politician and historian.
What nationality was B. I. Gorev?
B. I. Gorev was Russian.
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