History

The case of the General Union of the Jewish Workers of Russia, Poland and Lithuania

Submitted by Juan Conatz on Aug 8 2015 04:01

A left communist look at the Jewish Labour Bund.

Russia and Ukraine: history called up on national service

Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Jul 10 2015 11:14
Flag showing Stalin

The Russian and Ukrainian elites are mobilising, and misrepresenting, history, to justify each side of the ruinous military conflict in eastern Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine: history called up on national service

Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Jul 10 2015 11:14
Flag showing Stalin

The Russian and Ukrainian elites are mobilising, and misrepresenting, history, to justify each side of the ruinous military conflict in eastern Ukraine

Berg, Eizens Avgustovich (1892-1918)

Submitted by Battlescarred on Jul 9 2015 12:32
E.A. Berg

A short biography of E. A. Berg, anarchist sailor.

Russian anarchists in the labour movement in the early 20th century - Anatoly Dubovik

Submitted by Karetelnik on Feb 17 2015 21:56
Flax factory Kulotino 1905

In Soviet historiography, the social basis of Russian anarchism was routinely ascribed to the petite-bourgeoisie. This legend has persisted into the post-Soviet period, despite a lack of empirical evidence. Using the database he has painstakingly constructed over many years, the Ukrainian researcher Anatoly Dubovik seeks to deal with this question scientifically by means of a statistical analysis.

Stalin didn't fall from the moon - Workers Solidarity Movement

Submitted by Steven. on Nov 8 2014 18:54

A collection of articles by the Irish Workers Solidarity Movement tracing the growth of Stalin's dictatorial powers in the USSR to the politics and practice of the early Bolshevik leaders, Lenin and Trotsky.

The True Reasons For The Anarchist Raids [Moscow 1918] (Analysis and Conclusions)

Submitted by Kate Sharpley on Jun 6 2014 08:12

Maximov's account of the April 1918 suppression of Moscow's anarchist groups.

The guillotine at work - Gregori Maximov

Submitted by Steven. on Apr 5 2014 23:58

Originally published in 1940 in two parts, this is the (partly eyewitness) account of the Leninist terror inflicted upon Russia during the revolution after 1917. Maximov, a life-long anarchist, fought in the Russian Revolution, organized with the metal-workers, and was imprisoned by Lenin's secret police in 1920 when he refused to join the Red Army: he was happy to fight the Whites, but not put down workers' and peasants' uprisings.

Under fire between the lines - Russian anarchists during the 1993 Yeltsin coup

Submitted by S2W on Oct 5 2013 00:21

As 20 years have passed since the tragic events of October 1993, we republish this detailed account by Yaroslav Leontyev & Peter Ryabov stored in the flag.blackened archive.

An irony of the Russian civil war

Submitted by Battlescarred on Sep 17 2013 12:16
Vasko-Bogdan

A short account of Vasko-Bogdan who started out as an anarchist and met his end fighting the Makhnovists