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Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky
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Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky

Soviet historian
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Born:
Aug. 17 [Aug. 29, New Style], 1868, Moscow, Russia
Died:
April 10, 1932, Moscow (aged 63)
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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 Bolshevik seizure of power in the October Revolution. Pokrovsky was active in the campaign against Leon Trotsky in the early 1920s and subsequently held several ...(100 of 247 words)

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