Pavel Borisovich Axelrod (25 August 1850-16 April 1928) was a leader of the Russian Mensheviks.
Biography[]
Pavel Axelrod was born on 25 August 1850 in Potscheff, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Pochep, Bryansk Oblast, Russia) to a family of Russian Jews. He was a milk businessman for years, selling kefir (fermented milk) in Switzerland. In 1883, he became a Marxist and a founder of the Emancipation of Labor party while living in Switzerland, and he once edited the Iskra newspaper of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party with Vladimir Lenin before the 1903 divide between the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. Axelrod was a Menshevik, and he went into exile in the Weimar Republic after the 1917 Russian Revolution saw the Bolsheviks rise to power. Axelrod died in Berlin in 1928.