David Riazanov: The Purged Architect of Marxist Scholarship

David Riazanov: The Purged Architect of Marxist Scholarship

In the tumultuous dawn of the 20th century, a figure emerged who would dedicate his life to the meticulous preservation and dissemination of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ intellectual legacy. This was David Riazanov, a scholar whose name, though perhaps not as widely recognized as Marx or Lenin, is inextricably linked to the very foundations … Read more