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Nikolai Nikolaevich Himmer (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Xиммер); commonly known as Nikolai Sukhanov (Russian: Никола́й Суха́нов) (9 December [O.S. 27 November] 1882 – 29 June 1940) was a Russian Menshevik Internationalist and chronicler of the Russian Revolution. On June 29, 1940, he was convicted on ...
Nikolai Sukhanov was born in Moscow in 1882. At high school he joined a socialist group and later joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party. He was arrested in 1904 after being caught in possession of illegal literature. This resulted in a one-year spell in the Taganka Prison.
Nikolai Sukhanov was a member both of the Bolshevik party and the Petrograd Soviet. Writing in his 1922 memoir, he recalls the events of the October Revolution: “The decisive operations of the Military Revolutionary Committee began at around 2 am… occupying first all of those parts of the city adjoining the Finland station…
Nikolai Nikolaevich Himmer (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Xиммер); commonly known as Nikolai Sukhanov (Russian: Никола́й Суха́нов) (9 December [O.S. 27 November] 1882 – 29 June 1940) was a Russian Menshevik Internationalist and chronicler of the Russian Revolution.
Sukhanov stood at the centre of the Russian revolution as a founding member and ideologist of the Petrograd Soviet and as fearless editor of the leading opposition newspaper.
- Israel Getzler
Apr 23, 2022 · During the crucial agrarian debates of the 1920s, Sukhanov fearlessly championed the Russian village commune, the obshchina, against those Communist economists who prepared the party for Stalin's brutal collectivization policy.
Jul 14, 2014 · Author of the only full-length eyewitness account of the 1917 Revolution, Sukhanov was a key figure in the first revolutionary Government. His seven-volume book, first published in 1922, was...
