Pyotr Andreyevich Arzinov

Peter Arshinov 1926

Pjotr ​​Andrejewitsch Arshinov , (also Peter Arshinoff ) pseudonym Pjotr ​​Marin Russian Пётр Андреевич Аршинов ; (* 1887 in Andrejewka near Nizhny Lomow , Penza Governorate ; † 1938 ) was a participant in Makhnovshchina . He published their story and wrote the biography of Nestor Machnos .

biography

Peter Arshinov was born into a working-class Ukrainian family from Yekaterinoslav . He first learned the trade of a locksmith. Before the revolution in 1905, he joined the Bolsheviks in 1904 . In 1906 he fled to Yekaterinoslav and switched to anarcho-communism . He was sentenced to death in 1907 after shooting the manager of the railroad workshop who denounced hundreds of workers for participating in a strike. In the same year a group of his comrades managed to occupy the prison and liberate all inmates. In 1909 he was arrested again and taken to Butyrka prison in Moscow. There he met Nestor Machno in 1910. He taught him " anarchist theory " and the two became friends.

In 1917 both were liberated in the course of the February Revolution . Machno went to the Ukraine, while Arshinov stayed in Moscow and worked there in the Federation of Anarchist Groups. In 1918, Machno convinced him to come to Ukraine. There he soon belonged to the inner leadership of the Makhnovshchina. During this time he edited various magazines, collected documents about the movement and wrote the first beginnings of a story about the Makhnovshchina, which were repeatedly lost to raids until the movement was crushed by the Bolsheviks in 1921. First he fled to Berlin and from there published the history of Machnowschtschina.

From 1925 on he lived in Paris, where he also met Machno again. He moved away from traditional anarchist views and campaigned for the establishment of an anarchist party . He was one of the authors of the widely received text The Organizational Platform of the General Anarchist Union of 1926, which created the current of platformism and earned it sharp criticism. This made him homesick. In 1931 he made contact with the Bolshevik Ordzhonikidze , with whom he had shared a cell in Russia. After publishing two anti- anarchist publications, Anarchism and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1931) and Anarchism in Our Time (1933), which led to the public break of his companion Nestor Makhno, he returned to the USSR in 1934 . In early 1938 he was arrested during the Stalinist Great Terror . He was accused of forming and leading an anarchist underground organization, whereupon he was sentenced to death and shot.

Max Nettlau , Nestor Machno and Alexander Berkman strongly criticized Arzinov and accused him of a tendency towards personal enrichment, authoritarian behavior, a lack of understanding of anarchism and treason.

Fonts

• The history of the Machno movement (1918–1921). Translated from the Russian by Walter Hold. With a foreword by Volin (1923) and a short biography of Arshinoff, as well as a selection bibliography, compiled by Heiner Becker (1998). 2nd edition, reprint of the original edition from 1923. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-89771-917-0 , ( classic of the social revolt 1).

Web links

• Literature by and about Pyotr Andreevich Arzinov in the catalog of the German National Library
• Arshinov's biography on libcom.org (eng.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Аршинов Петр Андреевич (партийный Псевдоним - Петр Марин) Источник: http://gufo.me/content_pol/arshinov-petr-andreevich-partijnyj-psevdonim-petr-marin-1884.html#ixzz3taAM7nGZ ( Memento of the original December 20 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Arshinov, Peter, 1887-1937. In: libcom.org. September 20, 2004, accessed December 6, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Arshinov, Peter, 1887-1937. In: libcom.org. September 20, 2004, accessed March 10, 2016 .