Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

Makhno & comrades - 1920

“Destroy the Makhno movement” - The Bolsheviks’ secret war against Nestor Makhno and his insurgents - Volodymyr Horak

How the Bolshevik state intelligence services tried to destroy the Makhnovist…

A Communist Left Critique of Platformism (Part II): The Platform and its Disciples

In Part I we examined the Free Territory, or Makhnovshchina, the revolutionary movement in Southern…

A Communist Left Critique of Platformism (Part I): The Makhnovshchina

Many over the years have pointed out the apparent similarities between Platformism and the Communist…

Who Were the Kronstadt Rebels? A Russian Anarchist Perspective on the Uprising

A newly-translated article on the composition of the Kronstadt rebels, drawing on primary materials…

The Kronstadt Revolt: One Hundred Years of Counter-Revolution

Little noticed at the time, few events in working class history have provoked so much emotional…

Armed soldiers in 1917 Moscow carry a banner reading 'Communism'

Balance sheet of a revolution / Bilan d'une révolution

As one of the major works of the communist left, Bilan d'une révolution covers the undistorted…

Alexander N. Poskrjobyschew and Stalin

Balance sheet of a revolution (Bilan d’une révolution) - Part III: The Soviet economy after October

In its last chapter, the balance sheet of the 1917 revolution examines the…

Leon Trotskt sitting at his desk

Balance sheet of a revolution (Bilan d’une révolution) - Part II: False lessons about the counter‑revolution in Russia

Much has been written about the Stalinist counter-revolution, most of it is wrong…

Soviet leaders, celebrating the second anniversary of the revolution in Moscow

Balance sheet of a revolution (Bilan d’une révolution) - Part I: The great lessons of October 1917

A historical analysis and balance sheet of the October Revolution from the…

Olonetsky

Olonetsky, Alexei Alexeivich (1893-1964) aka Sadikov, Sadikov-Olonetsky

A short biography of Alexei Olonetsky, Maximalist then anarchist

Tatiana Torgasheva

Torgasheva, Tatiana Tikhonovna (1885-1919)

A short biography of Tatiana Torgasheva, fighter for women's liberation, Bolshevik then anarchist communist

Header of 'Golos Truda', first Russian edition: 11th August 1917.

The Dolenko brothers. Dolenko, Nikolai Ilyich (1883-1944) aka M. Chekeres, Andrei; Dolenko, Ilya Ilyich (1896-1937)

Short biographies of the anarchists Nikolai and Ilya Dolenko