The organization of Socialist-revolutionary Maximalists was one of those parties and groups that represented the tendencies of petty-bourgeois "leftism"in Russia. The study of its activities and relations with the Bolshevik Party provides additional material for elucidating the question of the political and organizational collapse of the petty-bourgeois parties in Russia and the closely related problem of Bolshevik tactics in relation to the petty-bourgeois parties. The history of the Maximalist organization and its relations with the Bolshevik Party is still insufficiently described in Soviet historical literature. In the works published in the 1920s on petty-bourgeois parties, there are only general references to the maximalists, 1 as well as some data on their programmatic and tactical attitudes .2 Brief information on the activities of the maximalists on the eve of October and during the Soviet period can be found in the works devoted to the formation of Soviet statehood, 3 as well as the history of the bankruptcy of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois parties in Russia .4 In recent years, several articles about maximalists have appeared, focusing on criticism of their ideological views .5 However, the practical activity of the maximalists, the process of their evolution, and their relationship with the Bolshevik Party are still poorly revealed. In this article, on the basis of new documentary material, an attempt is made to consider a holistic approach to- 1 A. V. Lunacharsky. Former people. Essay on the History of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, Moscow, 1922. In ar din (I. V. Mgeladze). Political Parties and the Russian Revolution, Moscow, 1922; N. N. Popov. Petty-bourgeois anti-Soviet Parties, Moscow, 1924; S. P. Chernomordik. Social Revolutionaries. Kharkiv, 1930. 2 V. N. Meshcheryakov. The Party of Socialist Revolutionaries. Ch. 1, 2. Moscow, 1922; E. A. Morokhovets. Agrarian programs of Russian political parties in 1917. L. 1929. 3 E. N. Gorodetsky. Rozhdenie ... Читать далее