Background
GESSEN, Yuliy was born on March 8, 1871.
GESSEN, Yuliy was born on March 8, 1871.
Until 1917 worked mainly on Jewish history and the contemporary situation of the Jews in Russia. Member and secretary, Committee for the Equity of Jews. Helped found Yevreyskaya entsiklopediya (Jewish Encyclopaedia).
After 1917 concerned himself chiefly with history of the working class in Russia. From 1921 in Leningrad edited periodicals Arkhiv istorii truda v Rossii and Russkoye proshloye. 1925 cd, Khrestomatiyu po istorii rabochego klassa v Rossii (Reader on the History of the Working Class in Russia).
1930-1935 cd, Vestnik Academy of Sciences Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Also exec secretary and co-ed, 1st volume, collection Metallurgicheskiye ■ zavody na territorii USSR s 17-go v. po 1917 g. (Metallurgical Plants on Present Soviet Territory from the 17th Century to 1917) (1937).
During the last years of life cd. Records Department, Leningrad Oblast People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs Board.
Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.
Every person has rights to express his or her opinion, but the opinion could be expressed if it was in accordance with the general interests of Soviet society.