Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

Voldemar Antoni as a boy

Antoni, Voldemar Genrikhovich aka Volodya aka Zaruthustra aka Grigori Andreivich Lyapunov, 1886-1974

A short biography of Voldemar Antoni, mentor of revolutionary leader Nestor Makhno…

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The Russian anarchists - Paul Avrich

Paul Avrich's classic, and impeccably researched, study of the history of anarchism in Russia.

International Women's Day, St Petersburg 1917

On the socialist origins of International Women's Day - Temma Kaplan

Temma Kaplan explains the origins of International women's day in the workers' movement in the USA,…

Subsistence riots in Russia during World War I - Barbara Engel

Article on food riots, mostly by women, during World War I which helped spark the Russian revolution…

Moscow And Us - Otto Rühle

Brief notes on the Russian revolution, the third International and their relationship with the German proletariat by council communist Otto Ruhle.

Anarkhiia, paper of Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups - November 1917

Barmash, Vladimir Vladimirovich aka Gorbonos aka Valya aka Lonya, 1879-1938+

A short biography of Vladimir Barmash, prominent anarchist communist in Russia who perished in the…

Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism

Lars T. Lih on the Bolshevik policies of war communism and what they meant for workers and peasants.

NEP-period marketplace.

Political Testament of Lenin and Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP

Lars T. Lih on Lenin, Bukharin and the new economic policy of the Bolsheviks. In PDF format.

Piotr Rybin (Zonov)

Rybin, Piotr (Rivkin; Zonov; Rybin-Zonov) (? - 1920)

A short biography of Piotr Rybin (Zonov) anarchist worker murdered by the Bolsheviks

Boris Veretelnik (front, left),

Veretelnik, Boris, c,1889?-1919

A short biography of Boris Veretelnik , Left Socialist Revolutionary and then anarchist and Makhnovist

Dimitri Popov

Popov, Dimitri Ivanovich, 1892-1921

A short biography of Dimitri Popov, sailor, Left Socialist Revolutionary and then anarchist and Makhnovist

Anti-Semitism and the Makhnovists

Malet finds that - despite false allegations - Makhno was not anti-Semitic and that incidents of anti-Semitism among the Makhnovists were less…