Alexander Maslennikov's name is well remembered by veterans of the socialist Revolution and Civil War. He was a Communist who devoted himself wholeheartedly to the cause of the struggle for the emancipation of the working class. Maslennikov was one of those Bolshevik leaders who, in Lenin's words, "worked steadily and steadily among the proletarian masses, helping to develop their consciousness, their organization ,and their revolutionary self-activity." 1Alexander Alexandrovich Maslennikov was born on June 10 (22), 1890 in St. Petersburg in the family of a native of the peasants, an employee of the Expedition for the preparation of state papers. His mother was a telegraph operator, but soon had to leave her job and devote herself to raising her children. After graduating from the secondary school, Alexander entered the Physics and Mathematics Department of St. Petersburg University in 1908. Even in his school years, he became acquainted with revolutionary literature, learned the life of working people and became friends with the workers of the Putilovsky plant, near which the Maslennikov house was located. In 1909, Alexander was accepted into the RSDLP (b) and plunged into party work with all his youthful passion, leading it in the 1st city district of St. Petersburg. Together with him, his classmates, revolutionary students V. A. Bystryansky, A.M. Nazaretyan, L. M. Karakhan, K. A. Mekhonoshin, Ya.Anvelt, and E. A. Pridvorov (the future poet Demyan Bedny) carried out great propaganda and organizational work both within the university and among the workers. Maslennikov and Bystryansky were then members of the St. Petersburg Bolshevik Committee. In the spring of 1910, almost the entire St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP (b) was arrested. Maslennikov, who remains at large, and a number of other comrades restore the committee. As its member, Maslennikov directs the school of propagandists organized by him, prepares leaflets. But on the night of September 12, 1910, h ... Читать далее