Nick Heath
British anarchist-communist and thorough documenter of the international anarchist movement.
Lamanov, Anatoli Nikolaevich 1889-1921
A short biography of Anatoli Lamanov, the voice and ideologist of the Kronstadt Revolt
Anatoli Lamanov was born on July 3rd 1889. His father was Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai P.
The Fomin mutiny on the Don, 1920-1922
The red Cossack who led a revolt against the Bolsheviks in the Don region
Iakov Efimovich Fomin was born in 1885 in the Cossack hamlet of Rubezhnoe in Elenskaia stanitsa in the Upper Don district (stanitsas were the village units of the Cossacks, primary units in political and economic administration). He served in an elite Don Cossack unit from 1906. He is described as being six feet tall with a red beard.
1921: The Maslakov mutiny and the Makhnovists on the Don
An account of the Maslakov mutiny in the Red Army which threw the Bolsheviks into consternation.
“ Beside me on the big bay horse raced Brigade Commander Gregory Maslakov. This was a man of great physical strength and desperate courage. There were in his behaviour major shortcomings, but courage in battle, the ability to win over the soldiers by personal example to achieve victory atoned for them.” Budyenny’s Memoirs
Dermenzhi (Dermendzhi) aka Batko Dermenzhi (around 1880-1921
A short biography of Dermenzhi, Potemkin mutineer, Makhnovist commander and anarchist communist.
Dermenzhi, whose first name remains a mystery for the present, was born in the Ismail district of Bessarabia, within the Russian Empire (and not in Georgia as Skirda states). He came from the middle class. He began to work in the electrical and telegraph services.
Tsebry, Ossip (?-after 1958)
A short biography of Ossip Tsebry, Makhnovist partisan who carried on the armed struggle into the 1940s
In 1993 the Kate Sharpley Library produced a pamphlet Memories of a Makhnovist Partisan, a translation from the French of an originally Russian article that had been included in a booklet by Alexandre Skirda on Makhno. The article had originally been serialised in the Russian exile anarchist communist paper Dielo Truda-Probuzdeniye in 1949 and 1950. It was written by one Ossip Tsebry.
Budanov, Avraam, 1886?-1928/9?
A short biography of Avraam Budanov, who fought with the Makhnovists and continued an underground struggle after the defeat of the movement
Avraam Budanov was born into a peasant family in Slavyanoserbsk in Ekaterinoslav province. It appears that he came from the Bulgarian national minority in the Ukraine. From childhood he worked as a fitter in Lugansk. He became an anarchist-communist in 1905, and took part in revolutionary activities in the Donbas basin between1905-1907.
Vdovichenko, Trofim Yakovlevich, 1889-1921
A short biography of Trofim Vdovichenko, gifted guerilla commander and one of the most heroic figures of the Makhnovist movement
Trofim Vdovichenko was born into a family of poor peasants in Novospasovka in the Ukraine. He received a primary education. From 1910 he was a member of the Novospasovka group of anarchist-communists, alongside Viktor Belash ,Vassily Kurilenko, Luca Bondarets, Filipp Goncharenko, Vladimir Protsenko and Fomenko who also all had leading roles in the Makhnovist movement later on.
Anarchists who turned to the Bolsheviks - Nick Heath
In these biographies, Nick Heath charts the trajectory of several leading anarchists in the Russian revolution into the service of the Bolshevik counterrevolution.
Kogan, David aka Lev Rubin,Lev, Christ, Little Christ, David Samara (1893-1923?)
A short biography of David Kogan, devoted Russian anarchist and escaper extraordinaire.
“Comrade David Kogan (Lev Rubin), an attractive personality, a man of high
integrity and renown as a revolutionary Anarchist,” The Guillotine at Work, Grigori Maximov
Gutman, [Gotman] Iosif I. aka Iosif the Emigrant, 1890-1920
A short biography of Russian Jewish anarchist Iosif the Emigrant who was a strong advocate of close cooperation between the anarchist movement and the Makhnovists
“A short, slender man of thirty, with lustrous dark eyes set wide apart, and a face of peculiar sadness. The expression of his eyes still haunts me: now mournful, now irate, they reflect all the tragedy of his Jewish descent. His smile speaks the kindliness of a heart that has suffered and learned to understand”. The Bolshevik Myth, Alexander Berkman.
