Alexander Shliapnikov

Shliapnikov, Alexander, 1885-1937

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:07:06 +0000

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.

Appeal of the 22 - Alexander Shliapnikov

Ed — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:26:46 +0000

Dear comrades!

From our newspapers we have learned that the Executive Committee of the Communist International is discussing the “united workers’ front,” and we consider it our communist duty to inform you that in our country the “united front” is in bad shape not only in the broad sense of this term, but even in its application toward the ranks of our party.

Theses of the Workers Opposition - Alexander Shliapnikov

Ed — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:06:38 +0000

General Tenets

On the relations between the Russian Communist Party, the soviets and production unions - Alexander Shliapnikov

Ed — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:50:25 +0000

In it he argues for increased democracy within the party and for more control of the economy to be handed over to the unions.

1. The three-year experience of the Russian Revolution shows that the single force consciously fighting for the organization of society on communist foundations is the Proletariat.