Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution, 1917-1921

catch — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:20:59 +0000

The Russian Revolution - 90 years on.

Trotsky, the Left Opposition and the Rise of Stalinism: Theory and Practice - John Eric Marot

Ret Marut — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:09:03 +0000

Gorelik, Grigorii aka Anatolii, 1889-1956

Battlescarred — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:17:00 +0000

Grigorii Gorelik, usually known as Anatolii Gorelik was born into a Jewish family in 1889. He became an anarchist in 1904, at the age of fourteen. He was active in the Ukraine, and was arrested several times by the Tsarist police.

Yarchuk, Efim, 1882 or 1886-1937

Battlescarred — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:50:30 +0000

Yarchuk, Efim Zakharovich aka Khaim Zakharev - Also rendered as Yarchook, Yartchuk, Iarchuk etc.

“a man who enjoyed exceptional influence among the sailors and workers and whose idealism and devotion are matters of historic record” - My Disillusionment in Russia. Emma Goldman

From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution - Otto Ruhle

catch — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:56:44 +0000

This online version taken from http://www.marxists.org

From the Bourgeois to the Proletarian Revolution

1 The Bourgeois Revolutions

1919-1922: The Workers’ Opposition

Ed — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:49:14 +0000

The Workers Opposition began to form in 1919, as a result of the policies of War Communism, which set a precedence for the domination of the Communist Party over local party branches and trade unions. During the civil war, the Workers Opposition began agitating against the lack of democracy in the Communist Party as a result of the centralising actions of the party’s bureaucracy.

Counter-revolution and the Soviet Union - Gregori Maximov

Ed — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:51:13 +0000

Taken from the Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library, No. 14 (March 1998), can also be found on the KSL website here.

Medvedev, Sergei Pavlovich, 1885-1937

Ed — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:27:24 +0000

Sergei Pavlovich Medvedev was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, metalworker, and trade union organizer. Born into a peasant estate, he grew up in the countryside near Moscow and in St. Petersburg. After receiving a primary school education, he began factory work at age thirteen. He first worked at the Obukhov factory in St. Petersburg and participated in the 1901 Obukhov strike.

Kollontai, Alexandra, 1872-1952

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:47:17 +0000

Alexandra Kollontai was a major figure in the Russian socialist movement from the turn of the century through the revolution and civil war. During periods of exile she was also active as a speaker and writer in Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Scandinavia and the United States.

Women fighters in the days of the great October Revolution - Alexandra Kollontai

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:26:32 +0000

The women who took part in the Great October Revolution – who were they? Isolated individuals? No, there were hosts of them; tens, hundreds of thousands of nameless heroines who, marching side by side with the workers and peasants behind the Red Flag and the slogan of the Soviets, passed over the ruins of tsarist theocracy into a new future...

The Workers' Opposition - Alexandra Kollontai

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:48:26 +0000

First published in Pravda, January 25, 1921 this text was banned in Soviet Russia in March of 1921, by resolution of the 10th Congress of the Communist Party. It was then printed in the Workers ' Dreadnought (by Sylvia Pankhurst), April 22 - August 19, 1921.

On the History of the Movement of Women Workers in Russia - Alexandra Kollontai

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:31:33 +0000

What year could be said to mark the beginning of the working women's movement in Russia?

Shliapnikov, Alexander, 1885-1937

Ed — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:07:06 +0000

Alexander Shliapnikov was born in 1885 in Murom, Russia, into a Russian family belonging to the urban estate (meshchanstvo) and professing the Old Belief (a religious sect that split from the Russian Orthodox Church in the seventeenth century). His father died when he was three, leaving his mother to support four children by taking in washing.

Appeal of the 22 - Alexander Shliapnikov

Ed — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:26:46 +0000

Dear comrades!

From our newspapers we have learned that the Executive Committee of the Communist International is discussing the “united workers’ front,” and we consider it our communist duty to inform you that in our country the “united front” is in bad shape not only in the broad sense of this term, but even in its application toward the ranks of our party.

Theses of the Workers Opposition - Alexander Shliapnikov

Ed — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:06:38 +0000

General Tenets

On the relations between the Russian Communist Party, the soviets and production unions - Alexander Shliapnikov

Ed — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:50:25 +0000

In it he argues for increased democracy within the party and for more control of the economy to be handed over to the unions.

1. The three-year experience of the Russian Revolution shows that the single force consciously fighting for the organization of society on communist foundations is the Proletariat.

The Truth about Kronstadt

catch — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:44:22 +0000

This version is taken from: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhuey/HOME.html Copyright © 1992, 1998 by Scott Zenkatsu Parker.
The author permits the unlimited duplication, transmission, and distribution of this text with the proper citations for academic, educational, and non-commercial use only.

The Communist Left in Russia after 1920 - Ian Hebbes

Ret Marut — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:13:56 +0000

1917: The Proletariat's Democratic Revolution in Finland

catch — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:35:06 +0000

Sacrificed by the Bolsheviks at the negotiating table as they agreed the Brest-Litovsk treaty with international capital ("The revolution will not be lost simply because we will be giving the Germans Finland, Latvia and Estonia" - Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 26, pp.

1921: Kronstadt: Proletarian spin-off of the Russian Revolution - Cajo Brendel

catch — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:12:00 +0000