Draft:Vladimir Tsedeurbaum

Vladimir Osipovich Tsedeurbaum-Levitsky (28 February 1883 - 22 February 1938) was a Social Democrat, Menshevik and member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1901. His older brother was the prominent Menshevik Julius Martov.

Political activity
Starting in 1897, while still in high school, he participated in the social-democratic student movement. In February 1899 he was arrested for the first time.

In February 1901 he was arrested again while studying at the University of Saint Petersburg. In March he was arrested in Dvinsk for preparing a political demonstration. There he joined the Bund.

In 1902 he began working for the newspaper Iskra. In November, he was arrested again in Kharkiv. He lived in Poltava from 1903 and in the same year he became a member of the Kharkov and Yekaterinoslav sections of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

In December, he went abroad illegally, settled in Geneva. In 1905, he took part in the work of the Menshevik conference in Geneva.

The 1905 Revolution

With the outbreak of the 1905 Revolution, he returned to the Russian Empire and took part in the Kyiv Regional Menshevik Conference.

Between February and October 1917

On 17 March 1917, he was elected to the Provisional Party Committee of the Mesheviks of Moscow. On April 26, at a meeting of the Zamoskvoretsky district of the Moscow organization of the RSDLP, he advocated the participation of the Mensheviks in the Provisional Government.

In September 1917, at the Congress of the RSDLP, he was elected to the Central Committee. He signed the Declaration of the Menshevik "defencists". On September 22-23, 1917, he was elected to the Pre-Parliament.

Activity under Soviet rule

Tsederbaum refused to accept the October Revolution. On November 12th he signed a collective statement on his resignation from the Workers' Paper (Рабочая Газета) to protest against the position taken by the paper which sided with the Bolsehviks.

Works

 * For a quarter of a century: Revolutionary Memoirs of 1892-1917, Vol. 1. (Moscow; Leningrad : State Publishing House, 1927).