G.P. Maksimov Papers

Period 1917-1952
Total size   1.85 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Full name: Grigorij Petrovič Maksimov (Maximoff); pseudonym: Gr. Lapot'; born in Mitušino, Smolensk province, Russia 1893, died in Chicago 1950; anarcho-syndicalist, writer; studied agronomy in St. Petersburg; anarchist propagandist from 1912; militant within the revolutionary trade unions in St. Petersburg and Moscow; editor of the anarchist periodical Golos Truda/Novyj Golos Truda 1917-1918; several times arrested; through intervention of anarcho-syndicalists from Western Europe who attended the PROFINTERN Congress in Moscow liberated and subsequently banned from Russia; in 1922 in Berlin; supporter of the International Working Men's Association (IWMA); contributed to the anarcho-syndicalist journal Rabočij Put'; emigrated to Chicago in 1925; edited Golos Truženika and Delo Truda/Probuždenie; contributed to Fraye Arbeter Shtime and other anarchist periodicals; published several books including `The Guillotine at Work' 1940.

Content

Some correspondence by Maksimov, mainly 1929-1940; correspondence and other documents of the Zagraničnoe bjuro po sozdaniju Rossijskoj konfederacii Anarcho-Sindikalistov 1922-1924; manuscripts of his books `The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism', `Constructive Anarchism' and `The Guillotine at Work', in Russian and English; many articles, handwritten, typed and printed; articles by others, including one by Max Nettlau; notebooks and notes of Maksimov; handwritten accounts of speeches made in Russia against the Bolsheviks 1917; appeals and manifestos; leaflets, press clippings and other printed material.