Grigory Isayev

Grigory Zinovyevich Isayev (; 1 July 1943 – 20 July 2020) was a Russian politician and labor activist. He was the leader of the Samara Stachkom (Strike Committee) and the Party of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. A young man when Joseph Stalin died, he soon developed an admiration for Stalin's ideology that would drive him throughout life. His young experiences, along with a three-year tour in the Soviet Army in Germany, served to harden his anti-reformist tendencies ideologically. Later joining Alexei Razlatsky in the Soviet dissident movement, the two would form the Samara Stachkom, a Maoism aligned dissident network. Throughout the 1970s, Isayev and the Stachkom engaged routinely in short strikes for "simple" changes in working conditions. Also a key part of Isayev's dissident life was the copying of Ideological Notebooks, done to circumvent Soviet censors and spread awareness of the Stachkom.

After Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law in Poland in 1981, Soviet crackdowns on dissidents and strikers became more common. Two days later, on December 15, Isayev and Razlatsky, along with most of the Stachkom leadership were then arrested and sentenced to a prison camp for their roles in organizing a workers' strike and an underground communist organization in the Soviet Union while under Leonid Brezhnev's rule.