Author: Paul Avrich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Paul Avrich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780801491412
Category : Anarchism and anarchists
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Author: Paul Avrich
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400872480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Professor Avrich records the history of the anarchist movement from its Russian origins in the 19th century, with a full discussion of Bakunin and Kropotkin, to its upsurge in the 1905 and 1917 Social Democratic Revolutions, and its decline and fall after the Bolshevik Revolution. While analyzing the role of the anarchists in these fateful years, he traces the close relationships between the anarchists and the Bolsheviks and shows that the Revolutions were conceived in spontaneity and idealism and ended in cynical repression. The Russian anarchists saw clearly the consequences of a Marxist "dictatorship of the proletariat" and, though they had no single cohesive organization, repeatedly warned that the Bolsheviks aimed to replace the tyranny of the tsars with a tyranny of commissars. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author: Paul Avrich
Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 9780500750018
Category : ANARCHISM
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Author: Voline
Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN: 9780919618251
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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The untold story of the Russian Revolution: its antecedents, its far-reaching changes, its betrayal by Bolshevik terror, and the massive resistance of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries.

Author: Marcus Graham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Alexander Berkman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Eric Lee
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1786990954
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism. The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia in 1918, tells a different story. In this riveting history, Eric Lee explores the little-known saga of the country’s experiment in democratic socialism, detailing the epic, turbulent events of this forgotten chapter in revolutionary history. Along the way, we are introduced to a remarkable cast of characters – among them the men and women who strove for a more inclusive vision of socialism that featured multi-party elections, freedom of speech and assembly, a free press and a civil society grounded in trade unions and cooperatives. Though the Georgian Democratic Republic lasted for just three years before it was brutally crushed on the orders of Stalin, it was able to offer, however briefly, a glimpse of a more humane alternative to the Soviet reality that was to come.

Author: Anarchist Communist Groups of U.S. and Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Alexander Rabinowitch
Publisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745322681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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For generations in the West, Cold War animosity blocked dispassionate accounts of the Russian Revolution. This history authoritatively restores the upheaval's primary social actors-workers, soldiers, and peasants-to their rightful place at the center of the revolutionary process.