Russian Revolution 1917

From Insurgent Notes #16, February 2018.

The Makhnovist movement, or Makhnovshchina, was an attempt by revolutionary peasants in South-Eastern Ukraine to construct an anarchist society…

The Youth Memoirs of Nestor Makhno and Voldemar Antoni

This is the first volume of his memoirs which covers the two Russian revolutions of 1917 and the…

The third volume of Nestor Makhno's memoirs, first published in 1937; this is the first appearance of the work in English, published by Black Cat…

This is the second volume of Nestor Makhno's memoirs, originally published in France in 1936 and…

Loren Goldner in Insurgent Notes #10.

Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7.

A short biography of Russian anarchist communist Ivan Fomin.

The Peace at Brest is nothing but a compromise with German financial capital. It was nothing but betrayal to the workers of the world. I will show you comrades, exactly what I mean.

Comrades — when it came to the question of Brest-Litovsk in early 1918, it wasn't a tactical disagreement about space or a short-term calculation about men and bullets. It was the irrevocable theoretical divide for the new Revolutionary Dictatorship of the Proletariat: whether the dictatorship was to be conceived and felt as the instrument of the international class struggle — whose rationality is to carry the…

In October 1917, the Russian working class accomplished something never before seen: it seized state power and began administering society in the interests of the majority. This was no simple regime change or political coup—this was a revolution with a clear class character, led by workers and soldiers in their Soviets and guided by a revolutionary program for the overthrow of centuries of exploitation. The October…