The official opening of the exhibition “The History of Anarchism: Sources” will be held April 17 at the Centre for Social-Political History of the GPIB [State Public Historical Library] of Russia. Using the materials on display, it is possible to study the history of anarchism from Godwin, Proudhon and Bakunin up to our own times.
![Russian anarchist newspapers Russian anarchist newspapers](https://files.libcom.org/files/styles/small_wide/public/images/news/Russian%20anarchist%20newspapers.jpg?itok=NJa1F59I)
The curators of the project have concentrated on three key moments of this history:
– The history of Russian anarchism: the historical Bakuninism of the 19th century, the rebirth of the movement during the First Russian Revolution, anarchism in the Revolution and Civil War 1917–1921, the Russian anarchist emigration.
– Anarchism as a global movement; its currents and activity in various countries; anarchist anti-militarism; libertarian pedagogy.
– The anarchist movement in contemporary Russia: from perestroika to the present.
Also on display are publications from the collection of anarchist literature of J. Mackay [John Henry Mackay, 1864–1933, Scottish-German individualist anarchist] – one of the first collections acquired by the Marx-Engels Institute in the 1920s.
The exhibition is timed to the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Confederation of Anarcho-Syndicalists (KAS) – the first mass organization of anarchists in the era of perestroika.
The curators of the project are: Kirill Buketov, Yuliya Guseva, Vadim Damier, Irina Novichenko, Dmitriy Rublev, Yelena Strukova, Vlad Tupikin.
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Photos from the April 17 2015
Photos from the April 17 2015 opening:
Russian anarchist periodicals
Historian Dmitry Rublev speaking
Mikhail Bakunin and the Bakuninists
Anarchist sources exhibit
Anarchist publications of the inter-war period