Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

White Collars & Horny Hands: the revolutionary thought of Waclaw Machajski - Max Nomad

Nomad describes Machajski's theory of the socialist movement as a bid for power over the working…

What is "Makhaevism"? - Paul Avrich

Paul Avrich looks at the life of the Polish theorist and activist, Jan Wacław Machajsk.

Alexander Lepetchenko

Lepetchenko, Ivan and Alexander

A short account of the lives of the Lepetchenko brothers, Alexander and Ivan, who fought with the Makhnovists.

Stalin: why and how - Boris Souvarine

Souvarine describes Stalin's path of ascent to power as master of Party and state.

Zuychenko , seated 2nd from right. Makhno seated far left, Antoni seated second

Zuychenko, Nazar Semenovich, 1887/8-1938

A short biography of Nazar Zuychenko, one of first members of Gulyai Poye Anarchist Communist Group, persecuted by the Soviet authorities

Chuchko, Ivan Minovich, 1893-1938

A short biography of Ivan Chuchko, Makhnovist commander hounded by the Soviet authorities for many years.

Ivan Kolesnikov

The Kolesnikov uprising

A short account of the uprising against the Bolsheviks led by Ivan Kolesnikov, like Fomin and Sapozhkov an ex-Red Army man.

The Greek Makhnovists

A short account of the role of the Black Sea Greeks in the Makhnovist movement.

"Father" of Turkey: Kemel Pasha (saluting)

“Socialism in One Country” Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary “Anti-Imperialism”: The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925

Loren Goldner's detailed history of the official communist movement and the…

Lenin's Rolls Royce - one of 15 custom-made for Party use

Rapprochement; how the Bolsheviks came to love capitalists - EH Carr

In this short excerpt Carr describes the speedy development of close links between the young…

The KAPD’s report on the third congress of the Communist International

Report presented at the meeting of the KAPD Central Committee on July 31, 1921, by a KAPD delegate…

Opening of 2nd Congress of the CI

The Communist Left and the resolutions of the second congress of the Communist International - Henriette Roland-Holst

Dutch communist Roland-Holst argues against using the objective and subjective…