Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

Over the fresh grave of comrade N. Rogdaev - Nestor Makhno

Nestor Makhno's eulogy for the anarcho-communist revolutionary Nicolai Rogdaev is also a lament for the fate of Russian anarchism.

Alexei Mokrousov

Mokrousov, Alexei Vasilyevich ( Thomas Matyveyevich) 1887-1959

A short biography of Alexei Mokrousov, an anarchist guerrilla leader who went over to the…

Women in the Russian revolution.

Women and communal strikes in the crisis of 1917-1922 - Temma Kaplan

An article on women's pivotal role in Russia, Italy, Spain and Mexico during the revolutionary wave…

Factory committees in 1918 - Chris Goodey debates Maurice Brinton

Debates between Trotskyists and libertarians about the Russian Revolution rarely break new ground…

A Mennonite Selbstschutz unit photographed in the Ukraine, 1918

The Makhnovists and the Mennonites: war and peace in the Ukrainian Revolution

This is a story about massacres that occurred in Southern Ukraine between 26th October and 7th…

Lenin with Stalin

The Russian revolution in retreat, 1920-24: Soviet workers and the new communist elite - Simon Pirani

This critically acclaimed book, published in 2008, focuses on the retreat from the…

Party Dictatorship or Workers Democracy: Introduction -- Oskar Anweiler

Oskar Anweiler on the workers' councils and the Bolshevik dictatorship in the Russian revolution.

The Kronstadt Rebellion: Still Significant 90 Years On

Shawn Hattingh, from the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front in South Africa, on the Kronstadt Rebellion.

The crisis of power - Alexander Schapiro

An article by Russian anarcho-syndicalist Alexander Schapiro (1882-1946) written between the February and October revolutions in Russia, 1917.

State socialism - Jan Waclaw Machajski

Often discussed but seldom read, the writings of the maverick anarcho-syndicalist Machajski have largely been inaccessible up till now...

Did the Bolshevik seizure of power inaugurate a socialist revolution? A Marxian inquiry - Paresh Chattopadhyay

Chattopadhyay applies Marxian categories to the Russian Revolution of 1917 to…

Putilov factory meeting - Petrograd 1917

The Black Guards

A short account of the Anarchist Black Guards and their suppression by the Bolsheviks in Moscow in 1918