Russia
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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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.
Boris Yelensky's memoirs of the Russian Revolution
Anarchist Boris Yelensky's memoirs of the Russian Revolution. Yelensky later published Maximov's work and was a central figure in the Anarchist Black Cross.
I was born February 17th, 1889, in the city of Yekotirenodar (the gift of Catherine the Great), now known as Krasnodar, located in the province of Kuban, in the northern part of southern Russia. I was the fourth child of a middle-class family. My father had a shop that manufactured fur hats for the Cossacks.
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.
The Evolution of Local Soviets in Petrograd - Alexander Rabinowich
The Evolution of Local Soviets in Petrograd, November 1917 to June 1918: The Case of the First City District Soviet
Alexander Rabinowitch
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Urbanisation and Deurbanisation in the Russian Revolution and Civil War - Diane Koenker
Urbanisation and Deurbanisation in the Russian Revolution and Civil War
Diane Koenker
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The Commune State in Moscow in 1918 - Richard Sakwa
The Commune State in Russia in 1918
Richard Sakwa
Politics, Not Economics Was the Key - Vladimir Brovkin
Politics, Not Economics Was the Key
Vladimir Brovkin
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Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin: G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group - Paul Avrich
Paul Avrich's article from 1984 about G.T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group
Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin:
G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group
Paul Avrich
(RUSSIAN REVIEW, Vol. 43, 1984 pp. 1-29)
