V. VOLODARSKY
(Moisei Markovich Goldstein)
The first Russian Revolutionary Newspaper for Workers. Volodarsky shot to the top of the early revolutionary leadership. Most of the early Russian leaders were intellectuals and theoreticians. Valodarsky had much organizing experience and could communicate well with workers having been active in the Ladies Garment Workers Union and the American Socialist Party. His practical American approach was just what was needed and he became a key member of the leadership. He was so instrumental in the Bolshevik leadership that he was targeted for assassination along with Lenin and Uritsky. Lenin was only wounded. The others died. Goldstein was only 27 years old. Russia named bridges, schools and warships after him.
V. Volodarsky (Russian: В. Володарский; December 11, 1891 – June 20, 1918) (born: Moisey Markovich Goldstein) was a Marxist revolutionary and Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918.