Tarabukin Stepan Kuzmich (1878, the village of Zhidilovka, Kozlov Uyezd, Tambov Governorate — after 1936) was a figure in the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, a participant in the Constituent Assembly of 1918, journalist and publicist. He was connected to Nizhny Novgorod Province and imprisonment in 1922.[1]

Biography and Party Activity

He was born into a peasant family and was self-educated. In 1903, under the influence of S. N. Sletov, he joined the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries. In 1905 he took part in the Moscow December armed uprising, and in 1908 he was elected a delegate to the 2nd Congress of the PSR. In subsequent years he worked in the cooperative press and peasant unions, and carried out underground party work in Central Russia, Ukraine, and the Urals.[1]

In 1912 he was sentenced to exile in Orenburg Governorate, and in 1915 to Tobolsk Governorate. In 1916 he was conscripted into the army and demobilized in 1917. During the The February Revolution he worked in Tyumen at the consumer society "Pchela" (Bee) (as a board member and secretary) and became one of the organizers of the local Soviet. He later served as chairman of the Yekaterinburg Regional Soviet of Peasant Deputies and secretary of the PSR city committee in Yekaterinburg, and was elected a councillor of the city duma.[1]

The Constituent Assembly and the Civil War

In November 1917 he was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly for the Perm electoral district on the list of the Socialist Revolutionaries and the Soviet of Peasant Deputies (list no. 2). On 5 January 1918 he took part in the session after which the Assembly was dissolved. In 1918 he was in Perm, then in Yekaterinburg and Votkinsk, hiding from Kolchak's forces and maintaining contact with the Congress of Members of the Constituent Assembly.[1]

In 1920 he became secretary of a Tsentrosoyuz office, but was arrested in Barnaul and sentenced for participation in an underground Socialist Revolutionary organization to imprisonment for the duration of the Civil War. He served his sentence in Butyrka Prison, where he went on a hunger strike demanding the release of his arrested wife, whose arrest left their young daughter without care.[2] In March 1921 he was released after the hunger strike — probably at the request of the Bolshevik N. I. Avdeyev — and exiled.[1]

Nizhny Novgorod Arrest and Later Years

In September 1922 he was arrested in Nizhny Novgorod and sentenced to three years in the Solovki concentration camp. On the Solovki Islands he lived on Muksalma Island; in 1926 he was exiled for three years to Veliky Ustyug, and from 1931 to 1934 he was in exile in Tashkent.[2] Rehabilitated in 1993.[1]

Journalism and Publicism

During his Ural period he edited the newspaper "Volny Ural" (Free Urals), served as a correspondent for capital-city newspapers reporting from the Urals, and contributed to the publications "Bodraya Mysl" (Cheerful Thought), "Stoykaya Mysl" (Steadfast Thought), "Golos Truda" (Voice of Labor), and others — under the pseudonym Tarin.[2] Among his published works are an obituary for a Narodnaya Volya member in the Irkutsk newspaper "Golos Sibiri" (Voice of Siberia) (1913), the analytical article "Strashnye Tsifry" (Terrible Figures) in "Dumy Urala" (Thoughts of the Urals) (1917), and poems, including "Pesn o Zemle i Vole" (Song of Land and Freedom) and "Ne Rydai Ty Nad Utratoi" (Do Not Weep Over Loss) (both — "Dumy Urala", 1917).[1]

Sources

  1. soc-rev.ru — Party of Socialist Revolutionaries. History — Tarabukin, Stepan Kuzmich (1878-after 1936) (archived)
  2. elar.urfu.ru — Antoshin A. V., Antoshin V. A. In the Struggle for Freedom of the Press: the Socialist-Revolutionary Press of the Urals in the First Months of Soviet Power // Izvestia of Ural Federal University. Series 1. 2015. No… (archived)