He was originally named J.M. Nikolayevich. A participant in the Russian revolutionary movement; an agrarian economist and political commentator. In the early years, he was originally a Narodnik. During 1900-1902, he became acquainted with Lenin, Trotsky, and other leaders of the social democrat movement. In 1903, he began to study linguistics and philosophy in Moscow and joined the Social-Democratic Labor Party. He was arrested in May 1904 for revolutionary activities and released in October 1905, soon after he joined the December uprising in Moscow. He started his political career in the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, which he left around 1907. Since then, he and the leaders of the Social-Democratic Labor Party have debated how to treat Narodnism and Marxism correctly…
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