Gavril Miasnikov

Gavril I. Miasnikov (1889-1946) is a workman Bolshevik, leader of the " Working Group ".

Miasnikov was born in Perm (the Ural) in 1888. Young workman, it enters to the party Bolshevik about 1905-1906 when it studies Marx in the Russian translation and follows actively the polemic between Bogdanov and Lénine (1907-1917). Decree, it spends 7 years in prison where he is the protagonist of a strike which lasted 75 days. After the revolution of February, he becomes the president of the Soviet of Perm, in front of which he commits himself assassinating the Michel large-duke, without awaiting the orders of the central government. During the civil war, it orders volunteers in the fight against the white army which had occupied the central zone of the Ural. At the end of the civil war, he is elected delegated to the eighth Congress panrusse of the Soviets for the preparation of which he published an article, " The problems importants" , in which it supports the need for forming country trade unions to defend, against the kulaks, the poor masses of the campaigns. In 1918, he is member of the tendency " Communist of Gauche" who publishes " Kommunist ".

It is expelled of the party in 1922, at the time of the prohibition of the fractions, after a violent polemic with Lénine and the Central committee, on the " freedom to think autrement". Member of the working Opposition, he becomes the leader of his left wing, which is formed in 1922 in organization and takes the name of " Group Ouvrier". In the language running, the members of this group are called the " Miasnikoviens". It develops a clandestine activity then. The Working Group organizes working strikes in Russia in 1923. Stopped in 1923, it is transported of prison in prison and is tortured. In 1928, during its transfer in Arménie, the prison is transformed into supervised residence. During the same year, it succeeds in escaping in Persia. After having been again in prison in Persia then in Turkey, it succeeds, at the beginning of 1930, to gain France, where it remained until December 1944, while working as workman.

At the end of the war, he asks for Stalin the permission of turn over to the USSR. Stalin sends a plane to seek it. From this day, there will be no more news of Miasnikov, which judged secretly by a military tribunal will be shot in a prison of Moscow on November 16th, 1945.

Sources

'' Manifeste of the Group ouvier '', 1923.
http://www.marxists.org/francais/bios/myasnikov.htm
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/1654067.php
Paul Avrich, “Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin: G. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group”, The Russian Review , vol. 43,1984, p. 1-29.
Miasnikov, “Give judges to the Russian proletarians! ”, 1934.

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