Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky

Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (born Aug. 17 [Aug. 29, New Style], 1868, Moscow, Russia—died April 10, 1932, Moscow) was a Soviet historian and government official, one of the most representative Russian Marxist historians. Pokrovsky joined the revolutionary movement as a young man, becoming a member of the Bolshevik Party in 1905. Forced to leave Russia following the revolutionary disturbances of 1905–07, he lived abroad from 1908 until 1917, when he returned to take part in the...