David Shub
was born in Russia in 1887. He became
involved in politics and joined the Social Democratic
Labour Party in 1903.
In 1904
he left Russia and lived in London, Paris and Geneva where he met
and worked with George Plekhanov, Pavel
Axelrod, Leon Trotsky, Vera
Zasulich, Jules Martov, Vladimir
Lenin, Anatoli Lunacharsky, and
Victor Chernov.
He returned
to Russia to participate in the 1905 Revolution.
In 1906 he was arrested for revolutionary activity and sentenced to
internal exile in Siberia.
Shub escaped
in 1908 and made his way to the United States. He kept in close contact
with the leaders of both the February Revolution
and the October Revolution. In 1930
Shub published an article on Joseph Stalin
in the New York Times. Over the
next twenty years he wrote extensively about the Russian
Revolution including his acclaimed biography of Vladimir
Lenin that was published in 1948.
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