Background
POTRESOV, Aleksandr was born in 1869 in Moscow. Son of an officer.
POTRESOV, Aleksandr was born in 1869 in Moscow. Son of an officer.
Graduated from Petersburg University, 1893.
Active in the social-democratic movement from 1890. Arrested in 1896, and exiled to Viatka in 1898. One of the founders and editors (with Lenin) of Iskra, 1900.
Menshevik, 1903, leader of right-wing Menshevism. Left the Mensheviks, 1918. Radically opposed to Bolshevism after the October Revolution 1917.
Arrested in 1919, but soon released. Left Russia in February 1925. Lived in Paris, editor of the magazine Zapiski Sotsial Demokraia (Notes of a Social Democrat), 1931.
Contributor to Kerenskii’s Dni (Days). One of the best known socialist opponents of the Bolshevik mentality and methods.