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Typescript of unpublished memoir entitled "K istorii mirnoi kampanii sovetskoi demokratii sredi evropeiskikh sotsialisticheskikh partii. Argonavty mira. Kak my podgotovliali Stokgolmskuiu konfererenciiu. Vosporninaniia chlena Stokgolmskoi delegatsii N. S. Rusanova." Rusanov outlines here the preparations for the meeting and narrates his encounters with workers' parties and leaders of the socialist movement in Sweden, England, France and Italy.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nikolai Sergeevich Rusanov Manuscript; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Microfilm No. 2000-2010-1
Manuscript: Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--1967.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Manuscript Accessioned 1967.
Manuscript Processed 04/--/81.
2020-05-08 PDF removed. jg
08/05/2020 Biographical note was written by Tanya Chebotarev. Notes and authorities updated, ksd
Nikolai Sergeevich Rusanov (1859-1939), Russian Social-Revolutionary, also known under the pennames K. Tarasov and N. Kudrin
Nikolai Rusanov was born on September 16, 1859 in Oriol, Russia. He studied medicine at the Medical and Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg. There he became familiar with the populist movement and in 1877 joined the group "Zemlia i volia" (Land and Liberty). In 1879, when the group split, he joined the "Narodnaia volia" movement (People's Will). Members of this group later assassinated Tsar Aleksandr II (1881) and were prosecuted. Although Rusanov wasn't directly involved with the assassination, he fled into exile in 1882. He lived in France and Germany until the Russian Revolution of 1905.
Upon return, Rusanov became a member of the Social-Revolutionary Party and, in 1917, he was selected as a delegate to the International Socialist Peace conference in Stockholm. After the February Revolution of 1917, he supported the Provisional government of Aleksandr Kerensky. However, he never supported the Bolshevik takeover in October of the same year. In 1918, he immigrated first to Berlin and then to Bern, Switzerland. He died there on July 28, 1939.
Nikolai Rusanov authored several published works, including Zhizn' i smert' ́Petra Lavrovicha Lavrova (Geneva, 1900); Mirovoi rost i krizis sotsializma (Moscow, 1906); Iz moikh vospominanii (Berlin, 1923), and Na rodine, 1859-1882 (Moscow, 1931). At the turn of the century Rusanov was co-publisher of the Socialist Revolutionary journal Vestnik russkoi revoliutsii.
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