Английская Википедия:Grigorii Maksimov

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Шаблон:Anarcho-syndicalism sidebar Grigorii Petrovich Maksimov (Шаблон:Lang-ru; 1893–1950) was a Russian anarcho-syndicalist. From the first days of the Russian Revolution, he played a leading role in the country's syndicalist movement – editing the newspaper Golos Truda and organising the formation of factory committees. Following the October Revolution, he came into conflict with the Bolsheviks, who he fiercely criticised for their authoritarian and centralist tendencies. For his anti-Bolshevik activities, he was eventually arrested and imprisoned, before finally being deported from the country. In exile, he continued to lead the anarcho-syndicalist movement, spearheading the establishment of the International Workers' Association (IWA), of which he was a member until his death.

Biography

In 1893, Grigorii Petrovich Maksimov was born into a peasant family in Smolensk. He studied at a seminary of the Orthodox Church in Vladimir, but ultimately decided not to become a priest and instead moved to Saint Petersburg, where he studied to become an agriculturist. During his time at the Agricultural Academy, he became acquainted with anarchism, through the works of Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin.Шаблон:Sfn

After graduating in 1915, he was immediately drafted into the Imperial Russian Army and deployed to the Eastern Front. He returned to Petrograd during the February Revolution and participated in the workers' strikes that overthrew the Russian Empire.Шаблон:Sfn He quickly became a prolific speaker in factories and at workers' rallies.Шаблон:Sfn By June 1917, he had been elected to the city's central council of factory committees and became one of its most active members, as part of a rising tide of anarcho-syndicalism in the Russian capital.Шаблон:Sfn

In August 1917, he joined the editorial staff of the anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Golos Truda and became one of its main contributors.Шаблон:Sfn In the articles he penned for the paper, Maksimov spoke in favour of the factory committees as a model for workers' control, while he criticised mainstream Russian trade unions, which he considered to be a relic of capitalism.Шаблон:Sfn He also criticised the anarcho-communists for their advocacy of the immediate expropriation of factories by workers, instead believing in the need for a transitional stage for workers to be trained for the tasks of self-management.Шаблон:Sfn

Following the October Revolution, Maksimov participated in the First All Russian Congress of Trade Unions, where delegates of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks resolved to integrate the anarcho-syndicalist factory committees into the state-controlled trade unions.Шаблон:Sfn Maksimov objected, crediting the factory committees for the overthrow of capitalism and the Tsarist autocracy, and cited Karl Marx's appeals for a permanent revolution against the state, even declaring himself a better Marxist than the Marxists themselves.Шаблон:Sfn Maksimov rebuffed the claims of David Riazanov, who favoured the trade unions, dismissing him as a "white-handed intellectual who had never worked, never sweated, never felt life."Шаблон:Sfn But despite Maksimov's objections, the Bolshevik-majority Congress voted to dissolve the factory committees and to convert them into organs of the state's trade union apparatus.Шаблон:Sfn

In Golos Truda, Maksimov denounced the centralisation of industry by the Bolshevik party and declared that Russian anarchists should oppose the Soviets, as they were by this time under the control of the state.Шаблон:Sfn When there was a subsequent flare-up of terrorism by the anarcho-communists, he condemned their violent tactics, arguing that they shifted revolutionary energy away from organised action.Шаблон:Sfn Political repression followed soon after, with the Bolshevik government closing down Golos Truda in May 1918.Шаблон:Sfn

In August 1918, Maksimov participated in the First All-Russian Conference of Anarcho-Syndicalists, which was held in Moscow.Шаблон:Sfn The conference was fiercely critical of the Bolshevik government, which it denounced as a regime of "state capitalism".Шаблон:Sfn To express the anarcho-syndicalist critique, the conference also established a new newspaper, Volny Golos Truda, which was edited by Maksimov.Шаблон:Sfn But the critical articles published in this paper quickly resulted in it being shut down.Шаблон:Sfn Despite this setback, in November 1918, the syndicalists were able to convene a second congress, which resolved to form a nationwide anarcho-syndicalist confederation.Шаблон:Sfn The conference elected Maksimov as secretary of an Executive Bureau that would form this confederation.Шаблон:Sfn

During the subsequent period, Maksimov attempted to organise food workers into underground factory committees, which he hoped would form the nucleus of a nationwide General Confederation of Labor. In March 1920, Maksimov spoke at the Second All-Russian Congress of Food-Industry Workers, which adopted his resolution that denounced the Bolshevik's "dictatorship over the proletariat" and called for the establishment of free soviets.Шаблон:Sfn Although his own organising efforts resulted in little success on this front, Maksimov's idea for a decentralised workers' confederation was taken up by the workers' opposition, led by Aleksandra Kollontai.Шаблон:Sfn

In November 1920, during a wave of political repression against the anarchist movement, Maksimov was arrested by the Cheka and held in custody for weeks.Шаблон:Sfnm Following the outbreak of the Kronstadt rebellion, the 10th Bolshevik Party Congress declared a ban on factions, suppressing the workers' opposition and imprisoning Maksimov.Шаблон:Sfn In order to draw the attention of visiting European syndicalists, who had arrived in Moscow for the first congress of the Profintern, Maksimov and his fellow anarchist inmates in Taganka prison staged a hunger strike.Шаблон:Sfnm The resulting protest forced the Soviet government to release the prisoners,Шаблон:Sfnm on condition that they immediately leave the country. In January 1922, Maksimov left for Berlin.Шаблон:Sfn

In their German exile, the anarcho-syndicalists founded a new newspaper called Robochii Put (Шаблон:Lang-en), printed using the presses of the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD).Шаблон:Sfn Out of a reaction to the disorganisation of the Russian anarchist movement,Шаблон:Sfnm Maksimov and his fellow emigrants resolved to establish an international syndicalist organisation, together with their foreign comrades.Шаблон:Sfn In December 1922, they established the International Workers' Association (IWA).Шаблон:Sfn

After a brief stay in Paris, in 1925, he moved to the Chicago, where he hung wallpaper and edited Golos Truzhenika, the Russian language organ of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).Шаблон:Sfn Following Peter Arshinov's defection to the Soviet Union, Maksimov also took up editing Delo Truda, which took a notedly more syndicalist stance under his stewardship.Шаблон:Sfn During his time in the United States, Maksimov attempted to reconcile the syndicalist and communist factions of the anarchist movement. In 1933, he published a "Social Credo" that synthesised the two tendencies, drawing from the works of Peter Kropotkin.Шаблон:Sfn He called for the IWA to form agricultural cooperatives and factory committees in order to transform the economy, as part of a transition towards communism.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1940, he merged Delo Truda with the Detroit-based journal Probuzhdenie, which kept him busy as its editor. During the 1940s, he also wrote a history of Soviet political repression and compiled a collection of the Mikhail Bakunin's works.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1950, Grigorii Petrovich Maksimov died of a heart attack.Шаблон:Sfn He is interred in Waldheim Cemetery, near other Chicago anarchists.Шаблон:Sfn

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