# Boris Gorev

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{{Short description|Russian revolutionary (1874–1937)}}
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'''Boris Isaakovich Gorev'''  (4 December 1874, [Vilno](/source/Vilno) – 27 December 1937) was a revolutionary and writer who was active in both he [Bolshevik](/source/Bolshevik) and [Menshevik](/source/Menshevik) wings of the [Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party](/source/Russian_Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party).

He was the son of Isaak Meerovich Goldman. His younger brother Mikhail Goldman (aka [Mark Liber](/source/Mark_Liber))<ref name="JVL">{{cite web |title=Liber, Marc |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/liber-marc |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library |accessdate=16 July 2020}}</ref> was a founding member of the [General Jewish Labour Bund](/source/General_Jewish_Labour_Bund) ("the Bund"). His sister Julia Goldman married [Felix Dzerzhinsky](/source/Felix_Dzerzhinsky), but she died of [tuberculosis](/source/tuberculosis) in 1904.<ref name="Turton">{{cite book |last1=Turton |first1=Katy |title=Family networks and the Russian revolutionary movement, 1870–1940 |date=2018 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0-230-39308-0|url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bbm%3A978-0-230-39308-0%2F1.pdf}}</ref>

He was arrested in 1937 during the [great purge](/source/great_purge), and was then shot.

==Works==
* ''Materialism: Philosophy of the Proletariat'' 1920 Moscow. A Chinese translation by [Qu Qiubai](/source/Qu_Qiubai) was published which [Mao Tse-tung](/source/Mao_Tse-tung) read.<ref name="SCM">{{cite book |last1=Schram |first1=Stuart |last2=Cheek |first2=Timothy |last3=MacFarquhar |first3=Roderick |title=Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings: Volume VIII |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-51589-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvwsCgAAQBAJ&q=Boris+Gorev+%22Materialism+-+the+philosophy+of+the+proletariat%27&pg=PA478 |language=en}}</ref>

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Category:1874 births
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Category:Candidates of the Central Committee of the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

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