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Alexander Gavrilovich Shliapnikov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Гаври́лович Шля́пников) (August 30, 1885 – September 2, 1937) was a Russian communist revolutionary, metalworker, and trade union leader. He is best remembered as a memoirist of the October Revolution of 1917 and as the leader of the Workers' Opposition, one ...
Alexander Shliapnikov 1885-1937. Biography. Works. On the relations between the Russian Communist Party, the soviets, and production unions, March 1920. Theses of the Workers Opposition, March 1921. Appeal of the 22, 1922. On the Eve of 1917, 1923 Archive maintained by Andy Blunden.
Alexander Shlyapnikov was the most prominent of the worker intellectuals, the backbone of the Bolshevik Party. The author is not particularly sympathetic to Lenin or the Bolsheviks, but recognises ...
Sep 4, 2007 · Alexander Shliapnikov was born in 1885 in Murom, Russia, into a Russian family belonging to the urban estate (meshchanstvo) and professing the Old Belief (a religious sect that split from the Russian Orthodox Church in the seventeenth century). His father died when he was three, leaving his mother to support four children by taking in washing.
Jul 21, 2011 · Introduction. Shlyapnikov’s memoirs open just prior to the St Petersburg barricades of July 1914 and break off on the threshold of the revolution of 1917. His experiences and subsequent researches on this period throw into sharp relief the contradictory effect of World War I upon the development of the Russian revolution.
Victor Serge explained: "The Workers Opposition, led by Shliapnikov, Alexandra Kollontai, and Medvedev, believed that the revolution was doomed if the Party failed to introduce radical changes in the organization of work, restore freedom and authority to the trade unions, and make an immediate turn towards establishing a true Soviet democracy. I had long discussions on this question with Shliapnikov.
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Alexander Shliapnikov (1885-1937), a Russian worker, trade union leader, and Bolshevik revolutionary who reached the highest levels of the Soviet government after the October 1917 revolution, believed in fostering workers' initiative to emancipate themselves and workers'
