Vladimir Vol'skii

Vladimir Kazimirovich Vol'skii (1877–1937) was a Russian revolutionary with a Narodnik orientation.[1]

Biography

Vol'skii joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR) in 1903.[2] He embraced the terrorist methods of the PSR, personally involving himself in a plot to assassinate the governor of Baku in 1904.[2] In 1905, he briefly became the lover of Maria Spiridonova, the future leader of Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.[3]

At the time of the February Revolution of 1917, Vol'skii was in Tver, where he soon became a leading member of the local party. He was elected to the Constituent Assembly as the representative of Tver Oblast.[2] Following the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, he became active in the Socialist Revolutionary resistance to the Bolsheviks and became chairman of the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly who established themselves in Samara. In 1922, he was arrested by the Cheka, spent three years in a concentration camp, and was later sent to confinement. In 1937, he died a victim of the Great Purge.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Smele, Jonathan D. (2015). Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926. Rownam & Littlefield. pp. 1285–1286. ISBN 978-1-4422-5281-3.
  2. 1 2 3 Smith, Scott Baldwin (2011). Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–1923. University of Pittsburgh Pre. ISBN 9780822977797. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Sally A. Boniece, "The Spiridonova Case, 1906: Terror, Myth and Martyrdom," in Anthony Anemone (ed.), Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia. Northwestern University Press, 2010; pp. 127-151.
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