Lyubov Axelrod

Lyubov Isaakovna Axelrod (born Esther Axelrod; Russian: Любо́вь (Эстер) Исаа́ковна Аксельро́д, penname Orthodox Russian: Ортодо́кс; 1868–1946) was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist philosopher and an art theoretician.

Lyubov Axelrod, 1887.

Axelrod was born in the family of a rabbi in Vilenkovichi, a village in the Vilna gubernia of the Russian Empire, now in Pastavy Raion, Belarus. She became involved with the narodnik organization at age 16. She emigrated to Switzerland in 1887, with the assistance of Leo Jogiches (lover of Rosa Luxemburg when the Vitebsk organisation collapsed in the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Alexander III of Russia organised by Aleksandr Ulyanov, older brother of Vladimir Lenin.[1] In 1900, she received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Bern University.

References

Schmidt, O.Yu., Bukharin N.I. et al eds (1926). Большая советская энциклопедия vol 2. Moscow. p. 29.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
Schmidt, O.Yu., Bukharin N.I. et al eds (1926). Большая советская энциклопедия vol 2. Moscow. p. 29.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
Wetter, Gustav (1959). Dialectical Materialism: A Historical and Systematic Survey of Philosophy in the Soviet Union. London: Routledge and Regan Paul Ltd.

External links

(in Russian) (in Alexander M. Kobrinsky's library): Site devoted to Lyubov Axelrod
Frederick Choate's site on Lyubov Axelrod

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[1] Schmidt, O.Yu., Bukharin N.I. et al eds (1926). Большая советская энциклопедия vol 2. Moscow. p. 29.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

[2] Schmidt, O.Yu., Bukharin N.I. et al eds (1926). Большая советская энциклопедия vol 2. Moscow. p. 29.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

[3] Wetter, Gustav (1959). Dialectical Materialism: A Historical and Systematic Survey of Philosophy in the Soviet Union. London: Routledge and Regan Paul Ltd.