Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

Flax factory Kulotino 1905

Russian anarchists in the labour movement in the early 20th century - Anatoly Dubovik

In Soviet historiography, the social basis of Russian anarchism was routinely ascribed to the petite…

Peter is second from left, pictured in November 1920

Rybin, Peter, 1885-1921

Historical information about Peter Rybin, a Russian anarcho-syndicalist who joined the revolutionary Ukrainian Makhnovist army and was also…

Conquered city - Victor Serge

Victor Serge's novel about the early days of the Bolshevik regime, written in 1932 in France after being expelled from the Soviet Union and part…

Flame on the Snow - Victor Serge

A short story about the events of the Russian Revolution, written between 1920-21. Serge would write a more extensive novelization of this period in Conquered City.

Democratic centralism, the Workers Opposition, clandestine opposition movements, the crisis in the party, Kronstadt and the end of the revolutionary period in Russia - Michel Olivier

A short essay on the left opposition in the Bolshevik Party in Russia from 1919 to…

State capitalism: the wages system under new management - Adam Buick & John Crump

Adam Buick and John Crump's book critiquing the post-revolutionary Russian and Chinese economies as…

The Russian Revolution's influence on Greek labor - V.N. Gelis

How the Russian Revolution influenced and gave rise to communist ideals in the Greek labour movement…

The same, only in a different way - Gabriel Miasnikov

In this essay written in 1920, the Bolshevik left communist Gabriel Miasnikov examines the…

The Makhno Movement and Opposition within the Party

An article from the 1960's journal Obsolete Communism, the Left-Wing Alternative, about the history of the Makhnovist movement and the attention it had received at the time.

Makno's daughter Elena & wife Galina

An unsolved mystery: the "diary of Makhno's wife" - V.N. Litvinov

V.N. Litvinov analyses and disputes the alleged diary of Makhno's wife and its allegations about the…

Fyodor Schuss, center-right, poses with other Makhnovists

The Makhnos of memory: Mennonite and Makhnovist narratives of the civil war in Ukraine (1917-1921) - Sean David Patterson

A really interesting Masters thesis on the relationship between Mennonites and…

From mass strike to new society - Jeremy Brecher

Excellent text by Jeremy Brecher examining where mass strikes have progressed into the working class attempting to run society in its own…