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Alexander Shlyapnikov

He was born in Morom Russian 1885. He was born from a peasant family and only received 3 years of schooling before becoming a labourer. Alexander Shlyapnikov moved to St. Petersburg where he became a mechanic. He joined the Bolsheviks and in 1905 organized a protest meeting about Bloody Sunday. This resulted in him being arrested and he was sent to Vladimir Central Hard Labour Prison. He was released in 1908 and then left Russia and over the next 6 years worked in many countries in different factories. Some goals he wanted to achieve were: He wanted Russia to have a universal suffrage, Wanted the Russian government to allow freedom of expression and an end to political censorship. He believed that democracy could only be achieved in Russia by all of the violent overthrows of Nicholas the second.

