Alexei Pavlovich Skliarenko (russian: Алексе́й Па́влович Скляре́нко; 1870 – July 1916) (real name: Alexey Vasilyevich Popov) was a participant is Russia's revolutionary movement.

Background

Born by 1870, in Verniy which became

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, Alexei P. Skliarenko was the son of a

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.'Alexei P. Skiarenko' entry within ''The Great Soviet Encyclopedia'' of 1979. By the time he was about 18 years old, his life took a revolutionary turn. In 1886, Skliarenko joined the Narodnik movement. In 1887, he was arrested and imprisoned in

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a prison in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. By September 1889, Skliarenko met Vladimir I. Lenin and the then Vladimir I Ulyanov joined Skliarenko's discussion group. Together, these two men's thinking developed towards the validity of

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. In 1893, Skliarenko joined a group of

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s. In 1894, he was again arrested and this time he was exiled to

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. By 1898, Alexei P. Skliarenko had joined the

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or RSDLP. In 1898-1903, he did field work for the party first in Tula and then in

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. By 1903, his work for the party took him to

. From 1905 to 1907, Skliarenko served on the Bureau of the RSDLP where he represented the Central Region of

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and where he also worked on the

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committee of the RSDLP. In 1907, Skliarenko was both one of the 338 delegates to the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and was also once again arrested and on this occasion he was exiled to

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. In 1911, Skliarenko returned to St. Petersburg where he adopted the pen-name ''Bosoi'' and where he would write items for the

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newspapers '' Zvezka'' and ''

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'' as well as the journal '' Prosveshchenie'' (''Enlightenment''). In July 1916, Alexei P. Skliarenko died in

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, Russia, never living to see Russia's

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