Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

Lenin and Trotsky.

The red Jacobins: Thermidor and the Russian revolution in 1921

Stalin was the gravedigger of the Russian Revolution, as conscious agent of the bureaucratic elite…

The Unhappy Elitist: Victor Serge's Early Bolshevism - Peter Sedgwick

Peter Sedgwick examines the early, often seemingly contradictory, politics of anarchist-turned…

Jan Waclaw Machajski: A radical critic of the Russian intelligensia and socialism - Marshall S. Shatz

A biography of Polish-born Jan Waclaw Machajski and account of his radical critique…

Russian Black Sea fleet 1913

The Black Sea revolt - Tico Jossifort

The history of a 1919 naval mutiny of French troops sent to intervene in Russia against the revolution. Initiated by a group of anarchist sailors…

Nikolay Shchors

The mysterious death of Shchors

A short account of the life and mysterious death of Red commander Nikolay Shchors

Mass grave of revolutionaries killed in the fighting in Moscow in October 1917

The Dvinsk Regiment and the mysterious death of Grachov

A short account of the revolutionaries of the Dvinsk Regiment and the suspicious death of their…

The Petrenko incident: an opening shot in the attack by the Bolsheviks on the Revolution

A short account of the attack by the Bolsheviks on the detachment led by the revolutionary Petrenko in May 1918 at Tsaritsyn.

Bogunsky (Anton Shary)

Bogunsky and Lopatkin : Trotsky’s attacks on Red commanders

A short account of Trotsky's involvement in the killing of Red commanders Bogunsky and Lopatkin

Red Army parade, 1918

The shootings of Trofimovsky, Panteleev and Gneuchev: Trotsky imposes discipline in the Red Army

A short account of events on the Eastern Front during the Russian Civil War.

Red Army enter Samara - October 1918

The Anarchist and Maximalist uprising in Samara 1918

A short account of the Anarchist and Maximalist uprising in Samara in May 1918.

Malevich's Black Square

The Russian constructivists and anarchism

A short account of the Russian constructivists and their close relations with anarchism

Ivan Krupsky.

The Poltava uprising against the Bolsheviks, 1920

A short account of the large scale uprising against the Bolsheviks throughout Poltava province in the Ukraine.