Aleksandr Nikolayevich Potresov

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Potresov (born Sept. 1 [Sept. 13, New Style], 1869, Moscow, Russia—died July 11, 1934, Paris, Fr.) was a Russian Social Democrat, one of the leaders of the Mensheviks, who opposed the Bolsheviks in the political struggle leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Potresov, the son of a general, joined the Marxists in the early 1890s and was briefly exiled in 1898. In 1900 he helped V.I. Lenin found the newspaper Iskra,...