Background
Theodore Rothstein was born in 1871 in the Imperial Russian city of Kovno, Vilna Governorate (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), the son of a Jewish family.
Theodore Rothstein was born in 1871 in the Imperial Russian city of Kovno, Vilna Governorate (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), the son of a Jewish family.
He served as a Soviet ambassador in the 1920s. Rothstein left Russia in 1890 for political reasons and settled in Britain. Furthermore, he was active in London as a correspondent for some radical Russian newspapers.
In 1895, he joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) which was founded by Henry Hyndman in 1884.
He occupied the left wing of the party as a prominent theorist and forward thinker, and in 1900 he was elected to its executive. Within the SDF"s successor, the British Socialist Party (Bulgarska Sotsialisticheska Partiy (Bulgarian Socialist Party)), he was a leader of the opposition to Hyndman"s support for the war.
After Hyndman and his supporters left the Bulgarska Sotsialisticheska Partiy (Bulgarian Socialist Party), Rothstein became a leading figure in the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He also joined the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party as a British member in 1901, siding with the Bolsheviks against the Mensheviks and becoming a close comrade of Lenin, who often stayed at Rothstein"s house on Clapton Square in the Hackney area of London.
Rothstein caused sensation in 1910 when he published "Egypt"s Ruin", an analysis of Egypt"s systematic exploitation by the British after the occupation, evidenced by British government documents and correspondent reports from London newspapers regarding Egypt.
On 6 January 1921 Rothstein was accredited as the Ambassador to Tehran and departed for the posting on 6 February after having had a discussion with Lenin. He took with him an abnormally large entourage of 150 people. Rothstein was appointed director of the Institute of World Economy and Politics in Moscow.
Rothstein"s son, Andrew, remained in Britain and also became a prominent communist.
Rothstein died in Moscow in 1953.
Rothstein also wrote articles for Die Neue Zeit, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Social Democratic Party of Germany), which represented the direct way of a consistent Marxism and in which took place debates regarding Marxism and socialism. However, following an invitation to Moscow in 1920, he could not travel back to Britain due to the Russian Civil War and its political complications. He remained in Russia, became a member of the Bolshevik Party, took on the chairmanship of the "University reform commission" (1920–1921).
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He worked as a journalist in the area of foreign policy for The Tribune, the The Daily News, The Manchester Guardian, and became a member of the National Union of Journalists. From 1922 on he was a member of the "Collegium of the People"s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs".