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(1) The Granat Encyclopaedia of the Russian Revolution was published by the Soviet government in 1924. The encyclopaedia included a collection of autobiographies and biographies of over two hundred people involved in the Russian Revolution.

Despite the burden of a large family and difficult financial circumstances, his father tried to give his children an education.

Thus on 30 April 1896, Sverdlov was admitted to the Nizhny Novgorod provincial Gymnasium. There he spent four full years, during which time the family's financial position worsened considerably, and he fell foul of the teachers.

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He rebelled violently against the school routine and the arid scholasticism.

Political consciousness was awakened in him at an early age. He developed a growing desire to devote all his energies to the interests of the working class.

After the Gymnasium, Sverdlov found work as an apprentice in the chemist's shop at Kanavin. Here he came into co