1910s
Syndicalists in the Russian Revolution - Maximov
An account of the effects Russian Revolution on the Russian syndicalists and anarchists, and vice-versa, by a leading Russian anarcho-syndicalist of the time.
"Discussing the activities and role of the Anarchists in the Revolution, Kropotkin said: 'We Anarchists have talked much of revolutions, but few of us have been prepared for the actual work ,to be done during, the process. I have indicated some things in this relation in my Conquest of Bread.
Remember Kronstadt - Wildcat
Wildcat (UK) give a brief history of the Kronstadt fortress, from 1905 to 1921 on the 70th anniversary of the uprising (1991).
The 70th anniversary of the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union, giving us two convenient excuses to reexamine the Russian revolution. This brief history of the naval fortress-town in the Gulf of Finland gives us a particular viewpoint on the revolution itself: the viewpoint of some of its most combative participants.
The Hunt for Red October: Ten Days That Didn't Overthrow Capitalism - Wildcat
Wildcat (UK) attempt to debunk theories both for and against the October Revolution in Russia against the events of 1917-1921, including the council communist, Trotskyist and 'left communist' positions on the revolution.
The Hunt for Red October - Ten Days That Didn't Overthrow Capitalism
By Wildcat (UK)
The strategy and nature of Bolshevism
The final chapters of Gabriel and Dany Cohn-Bendit's book Obsolete Communism, the Left-Wing Alternative, which deal with the theory and practise of Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution
Mutinies - Dave Lamb
Solidarity's excellent pamphlet on mutinies in the British armed forces towards the end of World War I.
MUTINIES
Miscellaneous articles by Lucy Parsons
Several short news and comment articles written by Lucy E. Parsons in the US radical, anarchist and workers' press.
The Bolsheviks, the Civil War, and Red Fascism
Internationalist Perspective trace Stalinism back to the October Revolution and Lenin, via an article by Nicholas Werth.
INTERNATIONALIST PERSPECTIVE TEXTS 41
THE BOLSHEVIKS, THE CIVIL WAR, AND "RED FASCISM"
Kronstadt 1921: An analysis of Bolshevik propaganda - Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman analyzes the Bolshevik propaganda over Kronstadt, including the claim it was a "White Plot" led by the Tsarist general Kozlovsky (pictured)
Kronstadt 1921: An Analysis of Bolshevik Propaganda
Anarchists, Bolsheviks and Serge - Daniel Guerin
Anarchists, Bolsheviks, and Serge
From Daniel Guerin's _Anarchism_ (Monthly Review Press) (reprinted with permission):
Worker Unrest and the Bolsheviks' Response in 1919 - Vladimir Brovkin
Worker Unrest and the Bolsheviks' Response in 1919
Vladimir Brovkin
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