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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 ...
Sep 4, 2007 · Biography of working class Bolshevik, Alexander Shliapnikov, active in the Workers' Opposition movement who was eventually purged from the party and executed for his activities.
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.
Jul 21, 2011 · Alexander Shlyapnikov is most widely recalled today for his prominent role in the activity of the “Workers’ Opposition” in the Russian Communist Party between 1920 and 1922. However, his revolutionary work had started back in 1901 at the Obukhov engineering works in St Petersburg.
Shlyapnikov became increasingly critical of the way the Communist Party controlled the trade union movement. At the 1920 Communist Party Congress Shlyapnikov argued that trade unionists should play a more active role in running factories and warned against the dangers of a state controlled economy.
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...
Jul 21, 2011 · Originally published in Russian in 1923. Translated from the Russian by Richard Chappell. First published in English by Allison & Busby, London & New York in 1982. Transcribed by Barbara Allen & Einde O’Callaghan. Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
