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Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni (; – ) was a Russian revolutionary and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
Gershuni was unaware that Yevno Azef, his deputy, was working as an Okhrana spy. Entangled in Terror: The Azef Affair and the Russian Revolution by Anna Geifman, pp. 54–55 In May 1903, Gershuni was arrested in Kiev. In February 1904, Gershuni was tried by a military court in Saint Petersburg and received a death sentence, which later was reduced to life imprisonment at a hard labour camp by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. In 1906, he hid in a barrel of sauerkraut and escaped from the Akatuy katorga to China.
From China he traveled to Japan and the United States, giving speeches from San Francisco to New York City in support of the socialist-revolutionary causes. The American monthly review of reviews, Volume 35, p. 492 In Chicago he met Jane Addams. Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams, p. 419 He returned to Europe in February 1907 in time for the Second Extraordinary Party conference of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. There he continued to argue for a campaign of terror to overthrow the Tsarist Empire in Russia. Gershuni strongly defended Azef against claims of being a traitor. However, he soon died in Zurich of tuberculosis. The Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party Before the First World War by Manfred Hildermeier, pp. 42–43
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