Fedor Rotshtein

February 26, 1871 (age 82)

Kaunas

Social Democrat, 1901 (later Bolshevik). Lived in England as a political emigre, 18901920. Active in the British trade union movement and communist press. In 1911, joined the left wing of the Labour Party. One of the founders of Call, 1916. One of the founders of the British Communist Party, 1920. Returned to Soviet Russia. USSR representative in Iran, 1921-1922. Member of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, 1923-1930. One of the chief editors of the Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia (first edition, 1927-1945). Wrote a history of the working class movement in Great Britain, 1925. Also The Decline of British Industry, Its Cause and Remedy, London, 1903.

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Rotshtein, Fedor was born on February 26, 1871 in Kaunas.

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Social Democrat, 1901 (later Bolshevik). Lived in England as a political emigre, 18901920. Active in the British trade union movement and communist press.

In 1911, joined the left wing of the Labour Party. One of the founders of Call, 1916. One of the founders of the British Communist Party, 1920.

Returned to Soviet Russia. USSR representative in Iran, 1921-1922. Member of the Collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, 1923-1930.

One of the chief editors of the Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia (first edition, 1927-1945). Wrote a history of the working class movement in Great Britain, 1925. Also The Decline of British Industry, Its Cause and Remedy, London, 1903.

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Religion is bad because it imposes irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.

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Individuals have rights to express freedom if it safeguarde the interests of a collective.

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