biographies

Biographies of revolutionaries, radicals, historical figures and working class activists.

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Anarchy (Russian anarchist paper) Sept 29th 1919

Mikhail Bukin: Letter to the Bolsheviks

A short account of the anarchist Mikhail Bukin and the letter he wrote to the Bolsheviks

Grigori Vasilevsky

Vasilevsky, (Tchaikovsky) Grigori Semyonovich (1892/3-1921)

A short biography of Makhnovist Grigori Vasilevsky

Karl Marx by Rolf Hosfeld

Biographies of Karl Marx - reading guide

Gallery for https://libcom.org/library/biographies-karl-marx-reading-guide

August Bebel

My life

Ferdinand August Bebel (22 February 1840 – 13 August 1913) was a German socialist politician, writer, and orator. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Social Democratic…

Dachau camp card for Weigand

Weigand, Heinrich (1909-1971)

A short biography of German anarchist Heinrich Weigand, who suffered more than 11 years in Nazi prisons and concentration camps.

Anarchism in Bulgaria

Short history on the life of Aleksander Nakov, committed Anarchist and Esperantist who lived and worked in Bulgaria.

Doris with Luis

Ensinger, Doris (1944-2020)

A short biography of German anarchist Doris Ensinger.

Carlo Cafiero

Carlo Cafiero- a brief life

The following biography appears in the Anarchist Communist Group edition of Carlo Cafiero's Compendium of Capital, which has just been published…

Sovetskaya St, Nizhny Novgorod - 1920s

Nikolai Tuzov and the anarchist underground in Vyksa

A short account of the activities of anarchist Nikolai Tuzov and the anarchist underground

Nemeritsky, second from right, Lidia to his left

Nemeritsky, Boris Grigorievich (1902- 1937)

A short biography of Boris Nemeritsky, active in the anarchist underground

Olonetsky

Olonetsky, Alexei Alexeivich (1893-1964) aka Sadikov, Sadikov-Olonetsky

A short biography of Alexei Olonetsky, Maximalist then anarchist

Tatiana Torgasheva

Torgasheva, Tatiana Tikhonovna (1885-1919)

A short biography of Tatiana Torgasheva, fighter for women's liberation, Bolshevik then anarchist communist