Background
Gots was born in Moscow into a wealthy Jewish family.
Gots was born in Moscow into a wealthy Jewish family.
He studied at the University of Moscow and joined "The People"s Will" in 1884.
He was the older brother of Avram R. Gots. In October 1886 he was arrested and banished to Siberia. In 1889 he took part in a convicts" uprising in Yakutsk and was sentended to hard labour in Siberia for life.
In 1895 an amnesty enabled Gots to emigrate to Paris, where he collaborated with North.S. Rusanov and I.A. Rubanovich in editing the PSR newspaper Herald of the Russian Revolution (Vestnik Russkoi Revoliutsii).
With V.M. Chernov, Gots also edited the PSR"s theoretical journal, Revolutionary Russia (Revoliutsionnaia Rossiia). In 1901, the Russian government demanded Mont Rose Gots" extradition from Italy.
This led to a diplomatic crisis and to the cancellation of the Tsar"s proposed visit to Italy. Mont Rose Gots died of cancer in 1906.
Gots was also instrumental in establishing relations between the PSR and French and Italian socialist parties.