Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

Kommunist

An Epitaph for the October Revolution?

2017 will no doubt see a flood of publications to commemorate the centenary of the Russian Revolution. There will be those who insist that the…

workers

Bukharin on the “Socialist” Opposition to Soviet Power

In Revolutionary Perspectives 11 (due out January 2018) we shall be printing Bukharin’s short review…

1917

The Russian Revolution 100 Years On: Newcastle Meeting of the CWO

This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution and the Communist Workers' Organisation has…

Leninism as Conservatism: The Russian Revolution and the Lessons of History

Just as it said today that people find it easier to envision the end of the world than the end of…

Tsesnik

Tsesnik, Grigori Anatolievich or Antonovich (1890-1938)

A short biography of Grigori Tsesnik, Russian anarchist hounded by the Soviet authorities

Passage Hotel

Bolshevik repression against anarchists in Vologda

A short account of the Bolshevik repression against the anarchist movement in Vologda in the years immediately after the Russian Revolution of…

Kronstadt poster

Kronstadt 1921 - Paul Avrich

A detailed book-length history of the Kronstadt uprising of workers and sailors against the burgeoning Bolshevik dictatorship during the Russian…

Fedir Shchus, sitting centre with other Makhnovist troops

The Makhnovist movement and the national question in the Ukraine, 1917-1921

A detailed account and analysis of the Ukrainian revolutionary anarchist army, during the Russian…

On leaving Russia

Russian Jewish anarchist Mollie Steimer, who was deported to Russia, on her being deported from Russia by the Bolsheviks for condemning their persecution of revolutionary workers.

Krasnoyarsk anarchists

Kaminsky, Vladimir Konstantinovich (1889 or 1891-1920)

A short biography of Vladimir Kaminsky, active in Ukraine and then in Siberia

Aldred

The British Anarchist Movement and the Russian Revolution

A short account of how British anarchists related to the Russian Revolution of 1917

Askarov, German Karlovich (1882-1937?) (real name Iakobson) aka Herman Kleiner, German, Oskar Burritt

A short biography of anarchist German Askarov, a leading light in the Russian anarchist movement.