Russian Revolution
Articles about the Russian Revolution of 1917 to 1921, and participants thereof.
1920: The Sapozhkov Uprising and the Army of Truth
A short account of the uprising led by Sapozhkov against the Communist government in 1920.
Alexander Sapozhkov came from a peasant family in Novouzensk county of Samara province. During the First World War, he graduated from the school of ensigns, rose from private to lieutenant and was awarded the medal of Knight of St. George. In 1917 he became a Left Socialist-Revolutionary and took an active part in the revolution in Saratov province.
The Communist Left in Russia after 1920
Left communists in Russia after 1920 who resisted the Bolshevik Party dictatorship.
INTRODUCTION
Brova, Mikhail or Brava aka Batko Brova, ?-1921
A short biography of Mikhail Brova, Makhnovist commander, anarchist communist and associate of Maslakov
Mikhail Brova was born into a peasant family in the village of Novogrigorevka, in the Ekaterinoslav province of the Ukraine. From early childhood, he worked as a mechanic–locksmith at the station at Avdeevka Yuzovsky.
The Brothers Parkhomenko: a tale of the Russian Civil War
The story of the Parkhomenko brothers, symbolic of the fratricidal struggle of the Russian Civil War
Alexander Parkhomenko is known to older Russians through the pages of the novel by Vsevelod Ivanov and the 1942 film of the same name. He was paraded as one of the great heroes of the Russian Civil War, alongside other partisan leaders like Chapaev (who also had a book and film dedicated to him). He led a Red Army detachment against the Makhnovists and eventually was killed by them.
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.
