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**Peter Andreyevich Arshinov** was an
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[anarcho-communist](Anarcho-Communism "wikilink") revolutionary and
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historian.
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## Life
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### Early Life
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Peter was born in the village of Andreivka to a family of workers in
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1887. He joined the [Bolsheviks](Bolsheviks "wikilink") in 1904. In 1905
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he was a fitter in a railway workshop in the town of Kizilarbat, in
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Turkestan near the Iranian border. He edited the Bolsheviks' newspaper
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aimed at railway workers, and fled to Ekaterinoslav the town to avoid
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police attention. It was there he became an
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[anarchist](Anarchism "wikilink"). He started to work in a shovel
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factory.
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He began organising armed attacks on the representatives of the local
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authorities and the police. He joined an anarchist attack on the town's
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police headquarters and shot and killed Vasilenko (who had tipped off
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police about workers' involvement in the [1905
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revolution](Russian_Revolution_\(1905\) "wikilink")), the owner of a
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local railway company, in front of a large crowd of workers.\[1\]
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### Arrest
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He was arrested for the murder in 1907, and condemned to be executed by
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hanging, but escaped during a religious celebration. He took refuge in
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France for two years and returned to Russia in 1909 and was arrested for
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distributing anarchist propaganda, but escaped from prison again. He
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robbed several wine depots and post offices, before being arrested in
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Austria in 1910. He was extradited to Russia and sentenced to 20 years
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in Butyrki prison, where he met [Nestor
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Makhno](Nestor_Makhno "wikilink"), teaching him about
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[Bakunin](Mikhail_Bakunin "wikilink") and
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[Kropotkin](Peter_Kropotkin "wikilink").\[2\]
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### Freedom
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During the [February
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Revolution](February_Revolution_\(Russia\) "wikilink"), they were both
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released and Peter started the Federation of Anarchist Groups of Moscow,
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and was secretary of the union for propaganda of Moscow, organising two
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newspapers and paritcipating in the conference of anarchists in Moscow.
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He later left for the [Free Territory of
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Ukraine](Free_Territory_of_Ukraine "wikilink") to produce newspapers
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(notably editing [Nabat's](Nabat "wikilink") newspaper) and organising
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[assemblies](Democratic_Assembly "wikilink"). Upon the fall of the Free
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Territory, he fled to Berlin, Germany and lived in Paris and Chicago,
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continuing to edit newspapers and playing a role in developing
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[Platformism](Platformism "wikilink"). He began to openly denounce
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anarchism to secure a passage into the [USSR](USSR "wikilink"), leading
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to all of his old friends harshly ending their friendships. Once living
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in the USSR, he organized an underground anarchist movement (leading
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some to believe his denouncing of anarchism to be faked to gain the
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trust of the USSR) and was executed in 1938.\[3\]
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## Works
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- 1921: History of the Makhnovist Movement
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- 1927: The Two Octobers
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## References
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<references />
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1. <https://libcom.org/history/arshinov-peter-1887-1937>
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