History of Anarchism in Russia: Experiences of the anarchist movement from Bakunin through the Russian revolution in relation to anarchism in Spain today

Table of contents :
Introduction
I. Before the Bolshevik Party
II. The First Russian Revolution
III. The World War of 1914-1918
IV. The Russian Anarcho-Syndicalists during the Proletarian Revolution
V. "The Anarchist Group Federation." The "Nabat" Group and Nestor Makhno. The "Illegal Anarchists"
VI. Present-Day Anarcho-Syndicalism
VII. The Criticism of Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism in the Works of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin

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HI ST OR Y OF AN AR CH IS M IN RUSSIA

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by E. Y AR OS LA VSKY AUTHOR OF ee11 bt1il t cl1iri11g tl1e last 2() year.Ii), tl1e like of wl1icl1 history 1·1as i1e\re1· knc)wn. Tl1is strld 11isto1~y . In Octol) e1~, i 917, a l)ig b1·eacl1 was macle in tl1c system of il111)e1·ialist states. rl"'hc young SC)Viet govern1ne11t of workers arid peasa11t.5, guicled by t he Bolsl1ev ik Party, the Party of Leni11 and Stalin, st1cceeclecl i11 vanq11i shing tl1e force.~ of all the enemies wl10 i·ose ag·ainst it. It abolish ed the capitali st and lar1cllo1~c1 classes. In the U.S.S.ll . tl1ere is 11ot a ~ingle capitali st 01· landlo1·cl. ·-rhe Soviet st(tte rot1ted the ar1nies of the '4.rhitegttarcls, tl1e ar1nies of tl1e bourg·e oisie, althoug h they "\Vere com1nande0. by tl1e olcl tried tsarist g·eneral s and include d nearly all tl1e old office1--s. The S(Jviet state clefeate d the armed interve1·1 tion ancl the eco11omic blockacle of the 14 capitali st N rfl-IE

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HISTORY OF ANARCI-IISM IN RUSSIA

The Soviet state vanquished economic chaos a11d built up a splendid industry and agriculture e(1t1ipped '\Vith the most up-to-date machinery. In place of the old, dilapidated, capitalist, landl