Struve, Pyotr

Struve, Pyotr (Berngardovich)

(born Feb. 7, 1870, Perm, Russia—died Feb. 26, 1944, Paris, France) Russian economist and journalist. In 1894 he wrote a well-regarded Marxist analysis of Russian capitalism and in 1898 a manifesto for the newly formed Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party. After his arrest and exile in 1901, he broke with revolutionary Marxism; from 1902 to 1905 he edited the illegal but widely read journal Osvobozhdeniy (“Liberation”), in which he called for a constitutional monarchy. He returned to Russia in 1905, joined the Constitutional Democratic Party, and edited the moderate journal Russkaya mysly (“Russian Thought”). In 1917 he opposed the Bolshevik takeover and left Russia for Paris and (after 1928) Belgrade.