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'''Sergei Shevitch''' (spelled variously, c. 1848-c. 1910) (<small>Russian:</small> Сергей Шевич) was a Russian |
'''Sergei Shevitch''' (spelled variously, c. 1848-c. 1910) (<small>Russian:</small> Сергей Шевич) was a Russian newspaper editor and [[socialism|socialist]] political activist who achieved his greatest fame in the [[United States of America]]. As editor of the ''[[New York Volkszeitung|New Yorker Volkszeitung]]'' (New York People's News) from 1879 to 1890, Shevitch emerged as arguably the most important leader of the [[Socialist Labor Party of America]]. Shevitch and his wife, the former princess [[Helene von Racowitza]], returned to Russia in 1890 to avoid loss of his estate lands to the crown owing to emigration. Following several years on his estate, Shevitch emigrated again, this time to Germany, where he would die by his own hand around 1910. |
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==Biography== |
==Biography== |
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Sergei Shevitch (spelled variously, c. 1848-c. 1910) (Russian: Сергей Шевич) was a Russian newspaper editor and socialist political activist who achieved his greatest fame in the United States of America. As editor of the New Yorker Volkszeitung (New York People's News) from 1879 to 1890, Shevitch emerged as arguably the most important leader of the Socialist Labor Party of America. Shevitch and his wife, the former princess Helene von Racowitza, returned to Russia in 1890 to avoid loss of his estate lands to the crown owing to emigration. Following several years on his estate, Shevitch emigrated again, this time to Germany, where he would die by his own hand around 1910.
Biography
Sergei Shevitch was born in Russia in approximately 1848.[1] Of noble birth and radical political proclivities, Shevitch attended university in Russia before emigrating to Paris.[2] It was there that he met and married the former Helene von Racowitza, over whom socialist leader Ferdinand Lassalle lost his life in a duel in 1864.[2] The pair emigrated to the United States in 1877.[1]
At the time of Shevitch's arrival in America, the socialists of New York had only recently launched a newspaper, the Volkszeitung, and were in search of a professional editor.[2] The erudite Shevitch filled this role magnificently and he would remain at the helm of this leading left wing daily for more than a decade — this being, it is to be remembered, a time in which the majority of the American socialist movement was German-speaking. Shevitch developed fluency and oratorical skill in English as well, which he put to the test against Henry George in a memorable debate held a the Cooper Union.[2]
In 1890 Shevitch and his wife returned to Russia, their decision forced by rules that would have ceded the substantial landed estate which Shevitch had inherited to the crown in the case of protracted absence from the country.[3] The pair lived on the estate for several years before successfully selling it.[4]
Thereafter the couple moved to Munich.[4] Shevitch was prohibited from political participation by the German government owing to his radical views and he lived out the rest of his live in relative quiet, where he waited his time for a constitutional order to be established in his native Russia.[4]