1922-1991 Soviet Union

from: Kate Sharpley Library website, October 20, 2012

Yuri Krinitsky was an 18 year old student when he came from Tashkent to study at the Russian Institute of the History of Art. Back home he had been involved in the setting up of several circles of anarcho-syndicalist youth. He was arrested there in autumn 1922 on the charge of publishing an underground magazine Turkestan Alarm and given a written denunciation. Undeterred by this he began anarchist work at the Institute, forming a group around him. During the Christmas holidays of 1923/24 he (...)

Alexander Berkman Social Club and Kate Sharpley Library : 2010. 96 pages.
ISBN : 9781873605905

TROTSKY PROTESTS TOO MUCH By Emma Goldman Published by THE ANARCHIST COMMUNIST FEDERATION [Glasgow, Scotland, 1938]. Price: Twopence. In America Five Cents
INTRODUCTION.
This pamphlet grew out of an article for Vanguard, the Anarchist monthly published in New York City. It appeared in the July issue, 1938, but as the space of the magazine is limited, only part of the manuscript could be used. It is here given in a revised and enlarged form.
Leon Trotsky will have it that criticism of his (...)

"The nearer I came to the Makhno region the more I was struck by the reverence with which the peasants spoke of Makhno."
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Moscow looked askance at the new social experiment attempted by Makhno. The Bolshevik press began to attack him and presently it denounced him as an enemy of the Communist Party. The peasant movement led by Makhno, called Makhnovshchina, was labeled as banditry and counter-revolution.
But Makhno continued his work in spite of the Kremlin, and (...)

"Ukraina is not Russia. We are a country of 40 millions, of different stock, with our own language and culture."
In the Tenon hospital at Paris there recently died a man poor and forsaken by almost every one of the millions that had once hailed him as liberator and hero. His name was Nestor Makhno.
Great personalities are the cameos of life, standing out in bold relief on its canvas and giving us a clearer understanding of the social background. History itself often sculptures such (...)

The Russian Revolution Series, No. 3. Berlin: Der Syndikalist. 42 p., 1 leaf incl. illus. (facism.) map. 23 cm.
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