Piotr Archinov

Piotr Andrievich Marin Archinov (1887 - 1937) is a Anarchiste Russian illegalist .

Biography

Born with Andreivka in Ukraine in a working-class family, it is employed in 1904 as workman metal worker in the workshops of Kizilarbat, with the Turkestan close to the Caspian Sea where it sympathizes with RSDPR (Bolcheviks) and becomes the writer of the social democrat newspaper “ Molot ” (the hammer). In 1906, to escape the police force, it goes to Ekaterinoslav where it approaches the anarchists.

Working in the Shoduar factory, it makes two acts liable to the capital punishment: it makes jump a building of the police force and assassinates the person in charge of the denunciation for facts of strike of a blow of revolver.

He is condemned to died but succeeds in escaping thanks to the support from comrades, follows one period of two years exile abroad where he continues his revolutionary activities (traffic of weapons) but he is stopped at the Austrian border, is delivered to Russia and is condemned to 20 years of prison.

Imprisoned close to Moscow, it meets Nestor Makhno and binds friendship with him. Released after the Russian Révolution of February it is all the same constrained to be exiled in Germany then in France. In 1932 it turns over in the USSR and works with the government as corrector until 1937. It will be victim of the Stalinist purgings, shown “attempt at restoration of anarchism”.

Works

History of the movement makhnovist (1918-1921)

See too

Illégalisme

References

Unknown , Arshinov, Peter, 1887-1937, on libcom.org .
Unknown , Pierre Archinov, on fondation-besnard.org , 2005.
“on October two”, Article of Piotr Archinov published in the Libertarian newspaper of Alternative for the 90 years of the Russian Revolution in October 2007

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