Russian Revolution
Articles about the Russian Revolution of 1917 to 1921, and participants thereof.
Moscow And Us - Otto Rühle
Brief notes on the Russian revolution, the third International and their relationship with the German proletariat by council communist Otto Ruhle.
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The First International was the International of the awakening.
Its role was to call on the world proletariat to wake up; it was to give it the great watchword of socialism.
Its task fell within the realm of propaganda.
The Second International was the International of organisation.
Barmash, Vladimir Vladimirovich aka Gorbonos aka Valya aka Lonya, 1879-1938+
A short biography of Vladimir Barmash, prominent anarchist communist in Russia who perished in the prison camps
Vladimir Barmash was born in a village near Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo). This village was very small and everyone who lived there had the family name Barmash. Despite the disadvantages of coming from a peasant background, he was successful at school and afterwards went to Moscow where he completed three courses in the people’s university of Alfons Shaniavsky.
Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism
Lars T. Lih on the Bolshevik policies of war communism and what they meant for workers and peasants.
Political Testament of Lenin and Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP
Lars T. Lih on Lenin, Bukharin and the new economic policy of the Bolsheviks. In PDF format.
Rybin, Piotr (Rivkin; Zonov; Rybin-Zonov) (? - 1920)
A short biography of Piotr Rybin (Zonov) anarchist worker murdered by the Bolsheviks
“ Rybin had enormous energy, and was very well organised and cultured in his work habits”. Piotr Arshinov, History of the Makhnovist Movement.
Veretelnik, Boris, ?-1919
A short biography of Boris Veretelnik , Left Socialist Revolutionary and then anarchist and Makhnovist
Boris Veretelnik was born into a peasant family in Gulyai-Polye. He worked as a foundry worker in the village and then in a foundry at the Putilov works in Petrograd. During the 1905-1907 Revolution he joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party and became an experienced organiser and agitator.
Popov, Dimitri Ivanovich, 1892-1921
A short biography of Dimitri Popov, sailor, Left Socialist Revolutionary and then anarchist and Makhnovist
Dimitri Popov was born in to a peasant family in the village of Kononova in the Klin district of Moscow province. After leaving school at fourteen he worked in the Moscow factories. In 1914 he was called up to active duty in the Baltic Fleet. He may have been in a group of anarchist sailors in spring 1917 but by summer of the same year he had joined the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.
Anti-Semitism and the Makhnovists - Michael Malet
Malet finds that - despite false allegations - Makhno was not anti-Semitic and that incidents of anti-Semitism among the Makhnovists were less than in rival military forces, including the Bolshevik Red Army.
White Collars & Horny Hands - the revolutionary thought of Waclaw Machajski - Max Nomad
Nomad describes Machajski's theory of the socialist movement as a bid for power over the working class by the middle class intelligentsia. His critique was based on observations of the legalism and state-capitalist goals of the European Social-Democratic parties of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In 1938 - 12 years after Machajski's death and his few followers had ceased to have any influence or activity - the USSR's Stalinist regime denounced 'Makhaevism';
What is "Makhaevism"? - Paul Avrich
Paul Avrich looks at the life of the Polish theorist and activist, Jan Wacław Machajsk.
When the Short Course history of the Communist party was published in Pravda in 1938, it was accompanied by a decree which emphasized the role of the intelligentsia in the construction of Soviet society.
