Alexander Parvus, Belarusian-German theoretician and activist (died 1924)

Alexander Parvus

Marxist theoretician, publicist and controversial activist

Alexander Lvovich Parvus, born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand and sometimes called Helphand in the literature on the Russian Revolution, was a Marxist theoretician, publicist, and controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.