Moisei Solomonovich Uritsky (Моисей Соломонович Урицкий;
1873–
August 30 1918) was a
Bolshevik revolutionary leader in
Russia.He was born in the town of
Cherkasy,
Ukraine, to a Jewish family. His father, a merchant, died when Moisei was little. Moisei's mother raised her son in a Jewish religious environment that was discriminated by Russian authorities.Moisei studied at the
University of Kiev. During his law studies he joined the
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and organized a network for importing and distributing political literature. In 1897 came arrest and exile for running an illegal mimeograph press. Becoming involved in the revolutionary movement, he participated in the revolutionary Jewish
Bund. In
1903, he become a
Menshevik. his activities in Petersburg during the
1905 revolution earned him a further term of exile. Along with
Parvus he was active in dispatching revolutionary agents to infiltrate the Russian
Tsarist security apparatus.
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