Alexander Shliapnikov 1885 – 1937

Biography

Alexander Shliapnikov was born on August 30, 1885, in the city of Murom, a historic town along the Oka River. Throughout his life, he devoted himself to political and labor movements that sought to reshape Russian society during a period of profound social change. His work as a politician and syndicalist reflected the ideological ferment of early twentieth-century Russia, a time when competing visions for the nation’s future competed fiercely for prominence.

Shliapnikov’s life came to a tragic end on September 2, 1937, in Moscow, during one of the most turbulent periods in Soviet history. He was laid to rest at Donskoe cemetery in Moscow, where many significant figures of his era were interred. His death marked the conclusion of a life spent engaging with the major political movements of his time, leaving behind a legacy connected to the labor and syndicalist traditions that shaped Russian revolutionary thought.