Russia: Alexander Shliapnikov, Russian trade unionist and communist revolutionary (1885-1937), c. 1925

Alexander Gavrilovich Shliapnikov (August 30, 1885, Murom – September 2, 1937) was a Russian communist revolutionary, metalworker, and trade union leader.

He is best remembered as a memoirist of the October Revolution of 1917 and as the leader of one of the primary opposition movements inside the Russian Communist Party during the decade of the 1920s.

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