biographies

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

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Header of 'Golos Truda', first Russian edition: 11th August 1917.

The Dolenko brothers. Dolenko, Nikolai Ilyich (1883-1944) aka M. Chekeres, Andrei; Dolenko, Ilya Ilyich (1896-1937)

Short biographies of the anarchists Nikolai and Ilya Dolenko

Butyrka Prison, Moscow, 1890s

Piven, Dimitri (1885-1970)

A short biography of anarchist communist Dimitri Piven, who shared a prison cell with Makhno.

Meschi, Alberto 1879-1958

Une biographie courte de Alberto Meschi, une des grandes figures de l’anarchisme italien, toujours commémoré avec ferveur à Carrara.

Mass murderer Matveyev

The massacre of Anarchists and Maximalists at Sandormokh

A short account of the murders of revolutionaries at Sandormokh

Aki Yagi (age 16)

Akiko Yagi (1895-1983)

A short biography of Japanese anarchist and feminist Aki Yagi

Berthold Cahn (holding briefcase)

Cahn, Berthold (1871-1942)

A short biography of German Jewish anarchist communist Berthold Cahn

Sadako Kurihara

Sadako Kurihara (1913-2005)

A short biography of Japanese anarchist poet Sadako Kurihara

Karl Kautsky

Biographies of and works about Karl Kautsky - reading guide

Book length or pamphlet length (10,000 words+) or otherwise notable biographies of the life of and…

Kyojiro Hagiwara

Kyojiro Hagiwara (1899-1938)

A short biography of Japanese anarchist poet Kyojuro Hagawara,

Foma Kozhin

Kozhin, Foma (18?- 1921)

A short biography of Makhnovist commander Foma Kozhin

Forty Years Since the Death of Onorato Damen

The document which follows comes from a speech at a public meeting held by the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) on 16…

Alexander Taratuta

Taratuta, Alexander (Ovsey-Meer) Grigorievich (Gershkovich) aka Stanislav, Sasha (1879-1937)

A short biography of Alexander Taratuta, Russian social democrat and then anarchist…