Aleksandr Martynov (Russian politician)

As seen in 1906

Alexandr Martynov (Alexandr Martinov; also, Aleksandr Samoilovich Pikker;^{[1][note 1]}) (12 December 1865, Pinsk – 5 June 1935, Moscow) was a leading Menshevik politician before the Russian revolutions of 1917, and for a few years after the revolution a critic of Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution (1923).^{[note 2]}

In 1884, he was a member of The People’s Will. Martynov was a leading member of the Union of Russian Social Democrats Abroad and from 1901 to 1902 Martynov was active on the journal of the Economist faction of the RSDLP, Rabocheye Delo, publishing articles strongly criticised by Lenin in What Is to Be Done?.

After the October Revolution, Martynov started to distance himself from Menshevism. He finally broke with the Mensheviks during the Russian Civil War. After the introduction of the NEP, Martynov claimed that there no longer was an ideological difference between him and the Soviet government and was admitted the Communist Party in 1923 as an opponent of the "Left Opposition." He was a chief architect of the "bloc of four classes."^{[2][note 3]}

In the 1920s, Martynov worked as a researcher at the Marx–Engels–Lenin Institute and a lecturer at the Communist Academy and the Sverdlov Communist University. From 1924 until his death in 1935, he worked for the Communist International.

See also[]

• Collectivization in the Soviet Union

Further reading[]

• Sotsial'demokraticheskiia pobiedy i burzhuezno-demokraticheskie.^{[note 4]} (pseud. [Aleksandr Samoilovich Pikker.]) 1904
• Передовые И Отсталые.^{[note 5]} (pseud. [Aleksandr Samoilovich Pikker.]) 1905.
• Peredovye i otstalye.^{[note 6]} (pseud. [Aleksandr Samoilovich Pikker.]) 1905.
• Мы И Они Лицом К Деревне.^{[note 7]} (pseud. [Aleksandr Samoilovich Pikker.]) 1925

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General

• Encyclopedia of Marxism - MIA