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Josef A. Katzel


Died
March 10, 1930


Josef A. Katzel (Iosif Alexandrovich Katzel, 1890–1930) was the only son of Alexander Iosifovitch Katzel (Александр Iосифовичъ Кацель/Александр Иосифович Кацель, b. 1862), who tutored a teenage Lenin while both were enrolled in law school at Kazan Imperial University in 1887. Josef graduated with high marks from the Department of Economics at the prestigious Petrograd Peter the Great Polytechnic Institute in December 1916, with a specialization in political economy. Soon after the Bolsheviks came to power in the October 1917 Revolution, Katzel fled with his family to neighboring Lithuania, just as it was declaring its independence from Russia. There he authored his groundbreaking HISTORY OF LITHUANIA. Unfortunately for the author, his book ...more

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