Gregori Maximoff

Grigori Petrovitch Maximoff (Russian: Григо́рий Петро́вич Макси́мов; November 10, 1893, Smolensk Oblast–March 16, 1950, Chicago) was a Russian-born anarcho-syndicalist who was involved in Nabat, a Ukrainian anarcho-syndicalist movement. Along with several other anarchists, he was imprisoned on 8 March 1921 following a Cheka sweep of anarchists in the area. After a hunger strike attracted the attention of visiting syndicalists, Maximoff was one of the 10 anarchists who were released from prison and deported.

Maximoff's work was first published in the US by the Union of Russian Workers, an anarchist organization with nearly 10,000 members which had a substantial presence in New York City.

Maximoff is best remembered for his book entitled The Guillotine at Work: Twenty Years of Terror in Russia about Bolshevik repression of anarchists and syndicalists after the Russian Revolution of 1917.

See also

• Fanya Baron
• Alexander Berkman
• Emma Goldman
• Nestor Makhno
• Voline

Bibliography

• Sovety rabochikh, soldatskikh, i krest'ianskikh deputatov i nashe k nim otnoshenie. (The Soviets of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies and Our Relations with Them) New York: Soiuz Russkikh Rabochikh, 1918.
• Bolshevism: Promises and Reality : An Appraisal of the Results of the Marxist Dictatorship over Russia
• Constructive anarchism - The Debate on the Platform
• A Grand Cause: The Hunger Strike and the Deportation of Anarchists From Soviet Russia Kate Sharpley Library ISBN 9781873605745
• The Guillotine at Work: Twenty Years of Terror in Russia
• My social credo
• The political philosophy of Bakunin: scientific anarchism (editor)
• The program of anarcho-syndicalism
• Syndicalists in the Russian Revolution

External links

• Grigori Maximoff at The Anarchist Encyclopedia