Editing Workers' Opposition (section)

==Membership==
[[File:Алексей Семёнович Киселёв (1879-1937).png|thumb|[[Aleksei Kiselyov (politician)|Aleksei Kiselyov]], chair of the Miners’ Union and a signatory of the theses of the Workers’ Opposition (but not of the [[Letter of the Twenty Two|Letter of the 22]])]]
The Workers' Opposition was led by [[Alexander Shlyapnikov]], who was also [[chairman]] of the Russian Metalworkers' Union, and it consisted of [[trade union]] leaders and industrial administrators who had formerly been industrial workers. [[Alexandra Kollontai]], the famous socialist feminist, was the group's mentor and advocate.  Other prominent members included [[Sergei Medvedev (revolutionary)|Sergei Medvedev]] and [[Mikhail Vladimirov]] (leaders of the Metalworkers' Union), {{ill|Alexander Tolokontsev|ru|Толоконцев, Александр Фёдорович}} and [[Genrikh Bruno]] (artilleries industry leaders), [[Mikhail Chelyshev]] (a member of the Party Control Commission), {{ill|Ivan Kutuzov|ru|Кутузов, Иван Иванович}} (chairman of the Textileworkers' Union), [[Kirill Orlov (revolutionary)|Kirill Orlov]] (member of the Council of Military Industry and a participant in the 1905 mutiny on the [[Russian battleship Potemkin]]), and [[Aleksei Semyonovich Kiselyov|Aleksei Kiselyov]] (chairman of the Miners' Union). [[Yuri Lutovinov]], a leader of the Metalworkers' Union and of the [[All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions]], sometimes spoke for the group, but sometimes held his own opinion.