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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Maxim Maximovich
Litvinov was a Russian-Jewish revolutionary and prominent Soviet
diplomat.Born Meir Henoch Mojszewicz Wallach-Finkelstein into a wealthy
Jewish banking family in Biäystok, Grodno Governorate in Podlasie
Region of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, at that time part
of the Russian Empire (Northwestern Krai), the son of Moses and Anna
Wallach, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (SDLP) in
1898. The party was an illegal organization, and it was customary for
its members to use pseudonyms. He changed his name to Maxim Litvinov,
but was also known as Papasha and Maximovich. Litvinov also wrote
articles under the names M.G. Harrison and David Mordecai Finkelstein.
His early responsibilities included carrying propaganda work in
Chernigov Governorate. In 1900 Litvinov became a member of Kiev party
committee, but the entire committee was arrested in 1901. After 18
months of captivity, he led an escape of 11 inmates from Lukyanovskaya
prison and lived in exile in Switzerland, where he was an editor for the
revolutionary newspaper Iskra. In 1903, he joined the Bolshevik faction
and returned to Russia.
