ANASTASIIA GRINCHENKO’S POLITICAL ACTIVITY: BETWEEN KONOTOP, ST. PETERBURG AND KYIV

Abstract

On the basis of archival materials it is described Anastasiia Grinchenko’s political activity in Poltava region (June 1906 — May 1907). Her activity in Hadiach, Konotop and St. Petersburg is discussed in the article. It is clarified, that Nastia Grinchenko, under the conditions of the second State Duma elections, widespreads agitation among the general masses of the “Union”, class consciousness of the proletariat by criticizing the programs and tactics of the opposition parties. It is revealed Nastia Grinchenko’s view on future social structure and the ways of its achievement that were formed in the context of the study and distribution of illegal Marxist literature, campaigning and debate among workers in Hadiach and Konotop. On the basis of correspondence with parents, her difficult choice between the desire to study in St. Petersburg and political activity is highlighted. It is underlined her choice was implemented in dangerous and exhausting work among rural and railway workers in order to change their consciousness and social order. Such choice required cooperation with the RSDWP to overcome the common enemy — autocracy. Imprisonment, unbearable, as for a young girl, labour, sleep deprivation, malnutrition, asceticism, exhausted the young organism and led to a serious illness. It is found out that, besides Anastasiia Grinchenko, a member of the “Union”, Mykola Sakharov, also actively worked in this period. Their interrelations and mutual influence are determined.