Bolsheviks

Comrades in the Red Army! Insurgent Makhnovists

Another appeal to the Red Army rank and file.

A word to the peasants and Workers of the Ukraine Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (Makhnovist)

A message to the workers and peasants of Ukrainian urging them to reject to Bolshevik Dictatorship.

Comrade peasants! Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (Makhnovist)

A communique by the Makhnovists concerning the occupation of the Red Army and the encroaching power of the Bolsheviks in the Ukraine.

My Visit to the Kremlin - Nestor Makhno

The Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno visited Moscow in June, 1918 and had extensive interviews with the Bolshevik leaders Sverdlov and Lenin. This account amounts to two chapters from his memoirs and deals with his encounters with the Bolsheviks.

August 12, 1937: Killing day at Tobolsk

Submitted by Battlescarred on Sep 17 2013 16:45

A short account of the state murder of Russian anarchists in 1937.

From the Russian revolution of 1917 to Stalinist totalitarianism - Agustín Guillamón

Submitted by Alias Recluse on Apr 24 2013 21:43

A historical essay on the transition from Russian Revolution of the Soviets to bureaucratic dictatorship under Stalin, with special emphasis on the period extending from the February Revolution to the period of War Communism.

The soviets: their origin, development and functions - Andreu Nin

An essay on the Soviets published in 1932 by the co-founder of the Spanish POUM, sympathetic to Lenin and critical of the “profound errors committed, after the death of Lenin, by the leadership of the Communist Party”, that characterizes the Soviets as “a system of government that is infinitely more democratic than the freest bourgeois republic”.

Bolsheviks shooting anarchists - Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman

Submitted by working class s... on Jan 28 2013 22:01

Letter from Emma Goldman and Alex Berkman written to warn workers of the persecution of revolutionaries in Russia by the Bolsheviks, originally published in Freedom in 1922.

The 1918 treaty of Brest-Litovsk: curbing the revolution - Guy Sabatier

Submitted by Alias Recluse on Jan 24 2013 00:19

A detailed historical account and political analysis of the treaty that marked the official conclusion of the First World War on the Eastern Front, in which the author stridently advocates the position of the “left communists” who opposed the treaty and instead called for international revolutionary war, with extensive discussion of the connection between the opposing views on this question in the Bolshevik Party and crucial domestic controversies concerning revolutionary social organization and economic policy.