David Riazanov ( ) , born David Borisovich Goldendakh ( ; 10 March 1870 – 21 January 1938 ) , was a political revolutionary , Marxist theoretician , and archivist . Riazanov is best remembered as the founder of the Marx-Engels Institute and editor of the first large-scale effort to publish the collected works of these two founders of the modern socialist movement . Riazanov is also remembered as a prominent victim of the Great Terror of the late 1930s
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David Riazanov