Russian Revolution 1917

The Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno visited Moscow in June, 1918 and had extensive interviews with the Bolshevik leaders Sverdlov and Lenin. This…

Originally published in 1940 in two parts, this is the (partly eyewitness) account of the Leninist terror inflicted upon Russia during the…

This is part 2 of the The Guillotine at Work, containing documentation of the Bolshevik "Red Terror" in the wake of the Russian revolution,…

Volume of GDH Cole's work examining social democracy and communism, looking at…

5 fragments of Kautsky on Bolshevik related matters published here for the first time.

A 1953 text in which Amadeo Bordiga examines the lessons of counterrevolutions from the defeat of Spartacus to the Battle of Legnano in 1176 and…

A short letter disputing Trotsky's attempts to shift the blame for the repression of the Kronstadt…

Originally published in 1940 in two parts, this is the (partly eyewitness) account of the Leninist…

A short piece on the events in the Ukraine during the October Revolution in 1917.

The basis for the Academy Award winning 1981 film Reds, Reed's classic eyewitness account captures the opening days of the Russian Revolution.

A short account of Vasko-Bogdan who started out as an anarchist and met his end fighting the Makhnovists

Well researched and detailed study of the factory-level impact of the Russian Revolution in…