Russian Revolution
Articles about the Russian Revolution of 1917 to 1921, and participants thereof.
The Greek Makhnovists
A short account of the role of the Black Sea Greeks in the Makhnovist movement.
Greeks had settled along the north coast of the Black Sea in what is now Ukraine and Crimea from at least the 5th Century BC. At the time of the Revolution of 1917 there were around 180,000 of these Pontic Greeks in the region.
“Socialism in One Country” Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary “Anti-Imperialism”: The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925
Loren Goldner's detailed history of the official communist movement and the communist left in Turkey around the time of the Russian revolution.
All information on the situation in Khiva, in Persia, in Bukhara and in Afghanistan confirm the fact that a Soviet revolution in these countries is going to cause us major difficulties at the present time…Until the situation in the West is stabilized and until our industries and transport systems have improved, a Soviet expansion in the east could prove to be no less dangerous than a
Rapprochement; how the Bolsheviks came to love capitalists
In this short excerpt Carr describes the speedy development of close links between the young Bolshevik regime and Western capitalist powers.
This included the supply of weaponry to the German Army at a time when it was crushing uprisings of communists and workers (for more on the Bolshevik relationship with the German military see;
http://libcom.org/history/spartakism-national-bolshevism-kpd-1918-24-solidarity).
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The KAPD’s report on the third congress of the Communist International
Report presented at the meeting of the KAPD Central Committee on July 31, 1921, by a KAPD delegate to the Third Congress of the Third International.
Comrades!
The Communist Left and the resolutions of the second congress of the Communist International - Henriette Roland-Holst
Dutch communist Roland-Holst argues against using the objective and subjective conditions of the Russian Revolution as a model for revolution in the Western countries.
The consequences of the decisions reached in Moscow are more complicated for the left communist groups.
Ivanyuk (?-1921)
A short biography of Ivanyuk, independent-minded Makhnovist commander, who died in the last major battle of the movement.
On 26 August we fought another battle…in which we lost our dearest fighters and comrades, Petrenko-Platonov and Ivanyuk”. Nestor Makhno, quoted in the History of the Makhnovist Movement, Piotr Arshinov.
Social origin and educational level of the chief Bolshevik leaders in 1917
A questionnaire filled in by Bolshevik leaders in 1917 reveals their social origin and educational level:
| Name | Profession of father | Studies |
| Antonov-Ovseenko | Officer | Higher |
| Bukharin | Mathematician | ,, |
| Bubnov | ? |
Pravda, Simeon (Batko Pravda), 1877-1921
A short biography of Simeon Pravda, one of the most colourful of the Makhnovist commanders
Simeon Pravda was born into a family of farm-hands in Lyubimovka near Alexandrovsk. He became an anarchist-communist from 1904, and took part in armed actions against the Tsarist regime. He worked on the railway as a coupler at Gaychur station in 1905,and it was there that he was involved in an accident that led to the loss of both his legs.
Zhivoder, c.1883-1920
A short biography of Zhivoder, a revolutionary sailor who moved from Bolshevism to anarchism.
From Bolshevism to Makhnovism
Zheleznyakov, Nikolai Grigorievich (1893-1918/1919)
A short biography of Nikolai, the far less well known brother of the anarchist Anatoli Zheleznyakov.
The other Zheleznyakov
