Chernov, Viktor Mikhaylovich

Chernov, Viktor Mikhaylovich

▪ Soviet politician
also called  Boris Olenin 
born November 19 [December 1, New Style], 1873, Kamyshin, Russia
died April 15, 1952, New York, N.Y., U.S.

      a founder of the Russian Social Revolutionary Party in 1902, who spent much of his life in exile but was briefly a minister in provisional governments in Russia (May 5–Sept. 1, 1917).

      A revolutionist from 1893, Chernov became a member of his party's central committee, wrote the party's platform, and edited Revolyutsionnaya Rossiya (“Revolutionary Russia”). In exile in western Europe when World War I broke out, Chernov attended the Zimmerwald Conference of 1915 (a meeting convened by Italian and Swiss Socialists to press for immediate cessation of World War I) and supported the “defeatist” resolution of his party's left wing, which condemned the “imperialist war.” But after he returned to Russia following the February Revolution (1917) and became minister of agriculture, he advocated defending his country against the Germans.

      During 1917 Chernov edited Delo Naroda (“Cause of the People”) and opposed the left wing of his party and the Bolsheviks (Bolshevik). He became popular as leader of the party representing the peasants' interests and was elected president of the constituent assembly that opened in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) on Jan. 18, 1918, and was dispersed the next day by the Bolsheviks. After a brief association with the Socialist Revolutionary government established at Samara to oppose the Bolsheviks, he emigrated in 1920, wrote and lived in Paris until the outbreak of World War II, and then went to the United States, where he contributed to anticommunist periodicals.

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