1920s
Soviets and Factory Committees in the Russian Revolution - Peter Rachleff
Peter Rachleff traces the development of the Factory Committees from early 1917 until the beginnings of the Bolsheviks' suppression of these organisations shortly after October.
Soviets and Factory Committees in the Russian Revolution
Peter Rachleff
The Third Revolution? Peasant resistance to the Bolshevik government
Nick Heath on the wave of rebellions and uprisings of rank-and-file Russian workers and peasants across the country in 1919-1921 against the Bolsheviks, who were consolidating their grip on power. Contrary to the Bolsheviks' claims, these rebellions were not reactionary but in fact in support of the original aims of the revolution: socialism, and workers' and peasants' self-management. Taken together they can be referred to as a Third Revolution.
Peasants into Russians: The Utopian Essence of War Communism - Bertrand M Patenaude
Peasants into Russians - The Utopian Essence of War Communism
Bertrand M Patenaude
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More than One Piece is Missing in the Puzzle - Moshe Lewin
More than One Piece is Missing in the Puzzle
Moshe Lewin
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The July Uprising of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in Moscow 1918 - Lutz Hafner
The July Uprising of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries in Moscow 1918
Lutz Hafner
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Institution Building in Soviet Russia: The Case of "State Kontrol" - Thomas Remington
Institution Building in Soviet Russia: The Case of "State Kontrol"
Thomas Remington
My Disillusionment in Russia - Emma Goldman
Russian-American anarchist Emma Goldman's book on the degeneration of the Russian Revolution of 1917-1921.
Deported American anarchist Emma Goldman travels to Russia for the first time in 30 years. She provides a revealing picture on the rampant opportunism throughout the Soviet government and its steady roots throughout the bureacracy.
Sirakova, Mariola, 1904-1925
Biographical information about Bulgarian student, actress and anarchist revolutionary Mariola Sirakova.
Born 1904 - Kilifarevo, Bulgaria, died 2 June 1925 - Belovo, Bulgaria.
Born in Kilifarevo, Bulgaria in 1904, the student-actress Mariola Sirakova belonged to a well-off family. She revolted from an early age against her social background and joined the anarchist movement at a young age.
Kronstadt Izvestia
Archive of the publication of the Kronstadt rebels, who fought to protect the gains of the Russian Revolution from the new Bolshevik authoritarianism.
Izvestia of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of Sailors, Soldiers and Workers of the town of Kronstadt - Issues 1-14, March 3-March 16, 1921.
Originally edited by Anatoli Lamanov .
Sometimes spelled: Isvestiia, Isvestia, Izvestia, Izvestiia, Isvestiya]
Factory Committees in the Russian Revolution - Rod Jones
Alongside the Russian workers' attempts to create socialism -- not as some abstract far-off utopia in a political party program, but through confronting and changing the concrete reality of their everyday life -- were the activities of socialist parties, supposedly sympathetic to working class aspirations. This pamphlet tells the story of the Russian workers' struggle, in particular the efforts of the factory committees.
The success of the Bolsheviks in defeating the working class and crushing all hope of socialism is the other side of the story. Today's supporters of Lenin and Trotsky still parade their writings and their politics as relevant to the working class and to socialism.
