Early Life
He was born in Nizhny Novgorod to Jewish parents. His father was an engraver. His brother was adopted by Maxim Gorky and became better-known as Zinovy Peshkov. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902, and then the Bolshevik faction, supporting Vladimir Lenin. He was involved in the 1905 revolution.
After his arrest in June 1906, for most of the time until 1917 he was either imprisoned or exiled. During the period 1914–1916 he was in internal exile in Turukhansk, Siberia, along with Joseph Stalin.
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