Chernyshev Illarion Vasilievich

Genus. in 1869 in Kursk; Russian; Higher education: graduated from the Technological Institute. Since 1894, a member of one of the first Marxist circles in Russia, he was part of the group of “young people” that opposed themselves to the group of “old people” led by V. Lenin; At the beginning of the 900s he worked in the Social-Democrats. organizations in the South of Russia, adjacent to the Southern Worker group; was in exile in the Vologda province. In 1902 he went abroad, where he was a member of the Russian section of the German Social Democrats. Supporter of Plekhanov. In emigration he studied sociology and economic history of Russia; among the Mensheviks he was considered the best specialist on the Russian peasantry. In 1930 he lived in Leningrad, a professor at the Agricultural Institute and a number of other institutes; arrested on December 27, 1930 on charges of active work in an underground Menshevik organization; By decree of the head of the 1st department of the SPO, he was released from custody; by decree of the OGPU PP dated May 31, 1931, the case was terminated. Shot in 1937.