Maxim Maximovich Litvinov (17 July 1876–31 December 1951) was a Russian

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 revolution

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ary and prominent Soviet

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 diplomat

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Born Meir Henoch Mojszewicz Wallach-Finkelstein (simplified into Max Wallach) into a wealthy Jewish banking family in Białystok

Bialystok

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, Grodno Governorate

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 in Podlasie Region of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, at that time part of the Russian Empire (Northwestern Krai

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), the son of Moses and Anna Wallach, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

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 (SDLP) in 1898.