Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

Camillo Berneri (1897–1937)

Regarding our critiques of Bolshevism

In this short but insightful article, Camillo Berneri tries to analyze as fairly as possible the causes for the failure of the Russian revolution…

Miasnikov (centre) in the Perm Provincial Committee of the RCP(B), 1920

Miasnikov's 'Draft Platform' for the Communist Workers' International (1930)

The document which follows is a translation from the French original. It was sent to us in the…

Foma Kozhin

Kozhin, Foma (18?- 1921)

A short biography of Makhnovist commander Foma Kozhin

The Astrakhan' shootings, March 1919

Account of the bloody repression of striking workers in the industrial town of Astrakhan by the Bolsheviks.

L.L. Men - Two Texts for Defining the Communist Programme

L.L. Men (sometimes LLM or L.L.M.) was a Hong Kong-based left communist who in the 1980s…

The Real Cause of the Beginning and End of WWI

Explanations of the cause of WW1 and its ending are always carefully avoided every year as regularly as the commemoration itself.

Alexander Taratuta

Taratuta, Alexander (Ovsey-Meer) Grigorievich (Gershkovich) aka Stanislav, Sasha (1879-1937)

A short biography of Alexander Taratuta, Russian social democrat and then anarchist…

The Workers and Peasants of Russia and Ukraine: How Do They Live? - Augustin Souchy

Augustin Souchy's work on the living conditions of Russian and Ukrainian workers and peasants in the…

Paths of revolution - M. Sergven

One of the first anarchist critiques of state capitalism of the Russian revolution

Gavrish, Daniil (189?-after 1924)

A short biography of Makhnovist commander Daniil Gavrish

1919: When the Bolsheviks Turned on the Workers - Looking Back on the Putilov and Astrakhan Strikes, One Hundred Years Later

Crimethinc look back on the hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik repression of…

Yakov Maskalevsky (?-1922) aka Gold Tooth

A short biography of anarchist and Makhovist Yakov Maskalevsky alias Gold Tooth