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Trusov's tomb in downtown Astrakhan

Aleksandr Evdokimovich Trusov (Russian: Александр Евдокимович Трусов) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary. Originally from Borisoglebsk, Trusov was exiled to Astrakhan for political reasons. In Astrakhan he became a prominent figure in the Bolshevik movement, before dying of ill health a little over a year after the October Revolution.

Early life and entry into revolutionary politics

Aleksandr Evdokimovich Trusov was born on 17 January 1888 in Borisoglebsk, Tambov Governorate.[1][2] Trusov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1904.[3] He was active in the Russian Revolution of 1905 in Borisoglebsk.[3] Trusov began working as a teacher at age 20.[2] In 1909 he was exiled to Astrakhan and placed under police surveillance.[2]

Exile and war

He continued revolutionary activities in Astrakhan.[2] In June 1914 he was arrested and expelled from Astrakhan.[4] In 1915 he arrived in Samara, where he became a member of the Samara Bolshevik Party Organization.[4] He was drafted into the army, where he conducted revolutionary agitation among soldiers.[1]

1917 revolutions

Returning from the Front back to Astrakhan in 1917, he rejoined the political movement there.[2] On 14 August 1917 he was elected chairman of the Astrakhan Bolshevik Party Organization and became the editor of the newspaper Astrakhansky Rabochy ('Astrakhan Worker').[2] He was elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly from the Astrakhan constituency in late 1917.[5]

Factional conflict

After the establishment of Soviet power in Astrakhan, Trusov would become the chairman of the Astrakhan Provincial Council of Trade Unions and a member of the Astrakhan City Party Committee.[2] However, he found himself at logger-heads with the Astrakhan Provincial Party Committee.[6] In May 1918 the Astrakhan Provincial Party Committee reprimanded Trusov for placing trade union interests ahead of party interests.[7] Trusov responded by setting up his own faction, the Group of Bolsheviks-Communists, independent from the City and Provincial Party Committees.[6][7] The Trusov-led faction, addressing the Party Central Committee charged that the party organization in Astrakjan had been overtaken by violently intolerant newcomers with a limited understanding of communism.[8] Trusov managed to gather a significant support in the Bolshevik ranks in Astrakhan.[6] The Astrakhan factional conflict was brought to the attention of the central party leadership, but faced with a myriad of contradictory accusations from both groups the party chairman Yakov Sverdlov refused to take sides.[6] On January 11, 1919 the Central Committee delegated Viktor Radus Zenkovich to deal with the split in Astrakhan.[7] In his speech to the Second All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions held January 16-25, 1919 Sverdlov expressed concern over the split between trade unions and party in Astrakhan and criticized neglect towards trade unions by the party organizations.[7]

Death

In April 1919 Trusov was recalled to Moscow, but fell ill and died en route in the night of 12-13 April 1919.[2]

Memorials

Esplanade Street [ru] in central Astrakhan was re-named after him in 1920 (the street returned to its pre-1920 name in 2007).[9][10] Trusov's tomb was placed on the Trusov Street.[11] Likewise the Trusovsky District [ru] on right bank of the Volga river in Astrakhan city, is named after him.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b Путеводитель по Астрахани и области. Нижне-Волжское книжное изд-во, 1979. p. 93
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Борьба за власть советов в Астраханском крае, 1917-1920 гг: документы и материалы, Vol. 1. Изд-во газеты "Волга", 1958. p. 404
  3. ^ a b Владимир Павлович Загоровский. История Воронежского края от А до Я. Центр.-Черноземное книжное изд-во, 1982. p. 278
  4. ^ a b Очерки истории Куйбышевской организации КПСС. Куйбышевское кн. изд-во, 1967. p. 631
  5. ^ I. S. Malchevskiĭ. Vserossiĭskoe uchreditelʹnoe sobranie. Гос изд-во, 1930. p. 133
  6. ^ a b c d Robert Service (17 June 1979). The Bolshevik Party in Revolution: A Study in Organisational Change 1917–1923. Springer. pp. 73–74, 78. ISBN 978-1-349-03771-1.
  7. ^ a b c d Biggart, John. The Astrakhan Rebellion: An Episode in the Career of Sergey Mironovich Kirov. The Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 54, no. 2, 1976, pp. 231–47
  8. ^ Vladimir Brovkin (1 January 1997). The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars. Yale University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-300-14634-9.
  9. ^ a b Лев Евгеньевич Вереин. Астраханский комсомол в годы гражданской войны и интервенции. Bolga, 1962. p. 8
  10. ^ Astrakhan Informbiuro. Полный справочник по истории имён улиц города Астрахани
  11. ^ Marshruti Rossii. МАРШРУТ «ПО МЕСТАМ РЕВОЛЮЦИОННЫХ СОБЫТИЙ»
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