Vera Aleksandrova

Vera Aleksandrova (; 1895–1966) was a Russian literary critic, historian, and editor. She became a Menshevik before going into exile in Germany. She contributed to Social Democratic publications and moved to Paris in 1933. Following the Nazi invasion of France, she moved to the United States in 1940. She was an editor for the Chekhov Publishing House.

Early life in Russia Vera Aleksandrovna Mordvinova was born in Russia in 1895. She studied in Moscow and Odessa. She married Solomon Meerovich Shvarts, a Menshevik activist, in 1919. She became Menshevik herself and in 1921 went into exile in Germany with her husband.

Aleksandrova contributed to a human behavior research project at Columbia University led by cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead. She served as editor-in-chief for the New York-based Chekhov Publishing House from 1951 to 1956. She published a series of memoirs of Russian emigrants with funds allocated by the Ford Foundation. She also worked on English-language editions of volumes concerning the history of Soviet literature.

Aleksandrova died in 1966.