Vladimir [Petrovič] Akimov Papers

Period (1881-)1897-1914 (-1922)
Total size   2.25 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Akimov-Machnovec, Vladimir P. True name: Vladimir Petrovič Machnovec; pseudonym: Akimov; born in Staryj Oskol, Russia 1872, died in Moscow 1921; revolutionary and historian of the social democratic movement; in exile from 1897; one of the leaders of the Sojuz Russkich Socialdemokratov zagranicej, spokesman for the `Economists'; delegate to the Second Party Congress of the Rossijskaja Social-Demokratičeskaja Rabocaja Partija (RSDRP) in 1903; returned to Russia in 1905; after 1906 involved in cooperatives.

Content

Extensive correspondence between Akimov and Boris N. Kričevskij, Vladimir P. Ivanšin, his mother and his sisters Julija P. (Gavenis-) Machnovec, Lidija P. Machnovec (pseud. Bruker) and Ljudmila P. Machnovec and others; correspondence and other documents of the office of the Sojuz Russkich Socialdemokratov zagranicej and of Rabočee Delo 1899-1903, including a report from the office to the third congress of the Sojuz Russkich Socialdemokratov zagranicej 1901; correspondence on and with cooperatives 1911, 1912; Akimov's diaries 1888-1890, 1903-1906; personal documents; manuscripts of articles; some notes and research materials; printed matter; letters received by his sisters and mother from various correspondents.

Process information

List made by Hermien van Veen in 1995