Ludwig Zinovievich Slonimsky (, , 1 November 1849Akt urodzenia nr 334 z roku 1860 w zespole 72/180/0 Akta stanu cywilnego wyznań niechrześcijańskich w Warszawie, Cyrkuł IV. — 1850, according to the Brockhaus and Efron Dictionary —1918) was a

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-born

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journalist, publicist, economist and lawyer, the son of Hebrew scientist and publisher

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.Слонимский Леонид-Людвиг Зиновьевич
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Career

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alumnus, Slonimsky started publishing articles on law and jurisprudence in ''Sudebny Vestnik'' (Court Herald) in

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in 1872. From 1875 to 1879 he was the head of the Foreign Policy section in '' Russkiy Mir'', and for some time co-edited it with Yevgeny Rapp. After a short stint with the ''Slovo'' magazine, in 1881 he joined the newspaper ''Poryadok'' (Order), then succeeded Valentin Korsh as its Foreign Policies editor. In late 1882 Slonimsky became a member of the ''

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'' staff where his essays on economics soon started to appear regularly; in 1883 he became the head of this magazine's Foreign Review section. Slonimsky lectured at the St Petersburg Juridical Society. He criticized Russia's financial policy, Marxist economics, and opposed the ''

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'', while supporting ''

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''. Among the issues he returned regularly to, were the theory of progress,

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, the rights of mentally ill patients, the legal rights of Jews in Russia and

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's philosophy. He published numerous historical essays too, including those on

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and Nicholas I. Later in his life he co-edited (with Viktor Fausek) the ''

''.

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