Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

Rosa Luxemburg

The Nationalities Question in the Russian Revolution (Rosa Luxemburg, 1918)

Luxemburg reveals the counter-revolutionary nature and consequences of the Bolsheviks' nationalist…

Russia 1917 - Wildcat,1985

Originally a contribution to the conference held by UK Wildcat on the Russian revolution and its implications today [i.e. 1985].

Marusya Nikiforova

Nikiforova, Marusya, 1885-1919 - Nick Heath

A short biography of Russian anarchist guerrilla and orator Marussia Nikiforova, who fought in the Russian Civil War following the 1917…

Kronstadt '21 - Victor Serge

We reproduce an excerpt from Memoirs of a Revolutionary, (1945) by Victor Serge on the Kronstadt rebellion against the Bolshevik autocracy, its…

Red Army troops attack Kronstadt

The Russian Tragedy - Alex Berkman

Alex Berkman anaylses the failure of the Russian Revolution, written 1922.

Central Committee of the Bolshevik party

The Russian Revolution and the Communist Party - Alex Berkman

Alexander Berkman analyses the role of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution, written June 1921…

G. P. Maximov

Syndicalists in the Russian Revolution - Maximov

An account of the effects Russian Revolution on the Russian syndicalists and anarchists, and vice-versa, by a leading Russian anarcho-syndicalist…

Maximov, Gregori Petrovich - a short biography, 1893-1950

A short account of the life of a prominent exiled Russian anarcho-syndicalist, perhaps best known for his compilation of Bakunin's writings and also The Guillotine At Work - his epic survey of Bolshevik state repression from 1918 onwards.

Lenin addresses the third congress of the Comintern, June 28, July 1 or 5 1921

Meetings in the Kremlin in Moscow 1921 - interview with Bernhard Reichenbach

An interview conducted in 1964 with former KAPD (Communist Workers Party of Germany) member Bernhard…

Remember Kronstadt

Remember Kronstadt - Wildcat

Wildcat (UK) give a brief history of the Kronstadt fortress, from 1905 to 1921 on the 70th anniversary of the uprising (1991).

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The Hunt for Red October: Ten Days That Didn't Overthrow Capitalism - Wildcat

Wildcat (UK) attempt to debunk theories both for and against the October Revolution in Russia…

Lenin and Trotsky at Red Square Moscow 20.05.1920

Lenin's Terror within the Bolshevik Party - Maximov

Anarchist Gregori Maximov's analysis of Lenin's repression of opposition factions within the Bolshevik Party during 1920-1921.