Peter Arshinov

Peter Arshinov
Peter Arshinov
Пётр Аршинов
	Peter Arshinov (1926)
Born	1887; Nizhny Lomov, Penza, Russian Empire
Died	c. 1937 (aged 49–50); Soviet Union
Cause of death	Execution by firing squad
Nationality	Russian
Other names	Peter Marin
Occupation(s)	Metalworker, editor, historian
Years active	1905-1934
Known for	Platformism
Notable work	History of the Makhnovist Movement; Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists;
Political party	Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1904–1906); Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1931–1937)
Other political; affiliations	Nabat (1918–1920)
Movement	Makhnovshchina

Peter Andreyevich Arshinov (Russian: Пётр Андре́евич Арши́нов; 1887–c.1937), was a Russian anarchist revolutionary and intellectual who chronicled the history of the Makhnovshchina.

Initially a Bolshevik, during the 1905 Revolution, he became active within the Ukrainian anarchist movement, taking part in a number of terrorist attacks against Tsarist officials. He was arrested for his activities and imprisoned in Butyrka prison, where he met Nestor Makhno.

Following the 1917 Revolution, he was released from prison and returned to Ukraine to join Makhno's partisan movement. Arshinov became a leading intellectual figure within the Makhnovist movement, as editor of its main newspaper, and chronicled the development of events as the movement's official historian.

When the movement was suppressed by the Bolsheviks, he went into exile, where he participated in the publication of the Organisational Platform and the debates surrounding it. By the 1930s, he had moved back towards Bolshevism and decided to return to the Soviet Union, where he was executed during the Great Purge.