Boris Osipovich Bogdanov (1884–1960) was a

Menshevik The Mensheviks (russian: меньшевики́, from меньшинство 'minority') were one of the three dominant factions in the Russian socialist movement, the others being the Bolsheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries. The factions eme ...

revolutionary active in the

February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

in 1917. However, following the

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

seizure of power in

October 1917 The following events occurred in October 1917: October 1, 1917 (Monday) * Germany launched counterattacks on British positions in Polygon Wood, West Flanders, Belgium. * Eighteen Gotha bombers of the '' Luftstreitkräfte'' (German Air Fo ...

he remained politically active against their regime.

Participation in February Revolution

Bogdanov was involved in the formation of the Petrograd Soviet.

Life in prison and exile

He was arrested on 27 December 1922 and was sentenced to two years in the

Pertominsk Pertominsk (russian: Пертоминск) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a Village#Russia, settlement) and the administrative center of Pertominskoye Rural Settlement of Primorsky District, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Primor ...

. Here he became the representative of the Mensheviks in the camp and signed a telegram alongside Georgy Kachorovsky, representing the

Socialist Revolutionaries The Socialist Revolutionary Party, or the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries (the SRs, , or Esers, russian: эсеры, translit=esery, label=none; russian: Партия социалистов-революционеров, ), was a major politi ...

and Ivan Charin representing the Anarchists complaining to the Soviet authorities that their

human rights Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...

had been violated by the non delivery of letters and parcels sent to them. In June 1923 he was transferred to the

Solovki prison camp The Solovki special camp (later the Solovki special prison), was set up in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea as a remote and inaccessible place of detention, primarily intended for socialist opponents of Soviet Russia's new Bolshev ...

on Solovetsky Islands. He remained in prison or exile for the rest of his life. During this period he did some work as an economist. Despite suffering a stroke in 1952, he was only released after a second stroke in 1956. He was rehabilitated at this time, but was still stigmatised as politically unreliable by the Soviet authorities.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bogdanov, Boris Mensheviks 1884 births 1960 deaths