The Russian Anarchists

Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400872480

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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 : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 0691051518

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The Russian Anarchists by Paul Avrich Pdf

In the Russian insurrections, anarchists waged partisan warfare for full liberty and equality.

Author : Sho Konishi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175314

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Anarchist Modernity by Sho Konishi Pdf

"Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress. Acting outside imperial encounters, they initiated underground transnational networks with Japan. Prominent intellectuals and cultural figures, from Peter Kropotkin and Lev Tolstoy to Saigo Takamori and Tokutomi Roka, pursued these unofficial relationships through correspondence, travel, and networking, despite diplomatic and military conflicts between their respective nations.Tracing these non-state networks, Anarchist Modernity uncovers a major current in Japanese intellectual and cultural life between 1860 and 1930 that might be described as “cooperatist anarchist modernity”—a commitment to realizing a modern society through mutual aid and voluntary activity, without the intervention of state governance. These efforts later crystallized into such movements as the Nonwar Movement, Esperantism, and the popularization of the natural sciences.Examining cooperatist anarchism as an intellectual foundation of modern Japan, Sho Konishi offers a new approach to Japanese history that fundamentally challenges the “logic” of Western modernity. It looks beyond this foundational construct of modern history writing to understand people, practices, and cultural expressions that have been forgotten or dismissed as products of anti-modern nativist counter urges against the West."

Author : Moritz Deutschmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317385301

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Iran and Russian Imperialism by Moritz Deutschmann Pdf

Rather than a centralized state, Iran in the nineteenth century was a delicate balance between tribal groups, urban merchant communities, religious elites, and an autocratic monarchy. While Russia gained an increasingly dominant political role in Iran over the course of this century, Russian influence was often challenged by banditry on the roads, riots in the cities, and the seeming arbitrariness of the Shah. Iran and Russian Imperialism develops a comprehensive picture of Russia’s historical entanglements with one of its most important neighbours in Asia. It recounts how the Russian Empire strived to gain political influence at the Persian court, promote Russian trade, and secure the enormous southern borders of the empire. Using hitherto often neglected documents from archives in Russia and Georgia and reading them against the grain, this book reveals the complex reactions of different groups in Iranian society to Russian imperialism. As it turns out, the Iranians were, in the words of the Russian orientalist Konstantin Smirnov, "ideal anarchists," whose resistance to imperial domination, as well as to centralized state institutions more generally, impacted developments in the region in the century to come. Iran’s troubled relationship with the wider world continues to be a topic of considerable interest to historians, yet little focus has been given to Russia’s historical connections to Iran. This book thus represents a valuable contribution to Iranian and Russian History, as well as International Relations.

Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008474838

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The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution by Paul Avrich Pdf

Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400859085

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Kronstadt, 1921 by Paul Avrich Pdf

In March 1921 the sailors of Kronstadt, the naval fortress in the Gulf of Finland, rose in revolt against the Bolshevik government, which they themselves had helped into power. Under the slogan of Òfree soviets,'' they established a revolutionary commune that survived for sixteen days, until an army came across the ice to crush it. After a savage struggle, the rebels were subdued. Paul Avrich vividly describes the uprising and examines it in the context of the development of the Soviet state. Originally published in 1970. 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 : Voline
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Russia
ISBN : 0919618251

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The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921 by Voline Pdf

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 : Anthony D'Agostino
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037082703

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Marxism and the Russian Anarchists by Anthony D'Agostino Pdf

Author : Victor Serge
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629630533

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Anarchists Never Surrender by Victor Serge Pdf

Anarchists Never Surrender provides a complete picture of Victor Serge’s relationship to anarchism. The volume contains writings going back to his teenage years in Brussels, where he became influenced by the doctrine of individualist anarchism. At the heart of the anthology are key articles written soon after his arrival in Paris in 1909, when he became editor of the newspaper l’anarchie. In these articles Serge develops and debates his own radical thoughts, arguing the futility of mass action and embracing “illegalism.” Serge's involvement with the notorious French group of anarchist armed robbers, the Bonnot Gang, landed him in prison for the first time in 1912. Anarchists Never Surrender includes both his prison correspondence with his anarchist comrade Émile Armand and articles written immediately after his release. The book also includes several articles and letters written by Serge after he had left anarchism behind and joined the Russian Bolsheviks in 1919. Here Serge analyzed anarchism and the ways in which he hoped anarchism would leaven the harshness and dictatorial tendencies of Bolshevism. Included here are writings on anarchist theory and history, Bakunin, the Spanish revolution, and the Kronstadt uprising. Anarchists Never Surrender anthologizes Victor Serge’s previously unavailable texts on anarchism and fleshes out the portrait of this brilliant writer and thinker, a man I.F. Stone called one of the “moral figures of our time.”

Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691006091

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Anarchist Portraits by Paul Avrich Pdf

From the celebrated Russian intellectuals Michael Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin to the little-known Australian bootmaker and radical speaker J. W. Fleming, this book probes the lives and personalities of representative anarchists.

Author : Paul Avrich,Karen Avrich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674067677

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Sasha and Emma by Paul Avrich,Karen Avrich Pdf

In 1889 two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and Sasha would be fast friends, fleeting lovers, and loyal comrades. This dual biography offers an unprecedented glimpse into their intertwined lives, the lasting influence of the anarchist movement they shaped, and their unyielding commitment to equality and justice. Berkman shocked the country in 1892 with "the first terrorist act in America," the failed assassination of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick for his crimes against workers. Passionate and pitiless, gloomy yet gentle, Berkman remained Goldman's closest confidant though the two were often separated-by his fourteen-year imprisonment and by Emma's growing fame as the champion of a multitude of causes, from sexual liberation to freedom of speech. The blazing sun to Sasha's morose moon, Emma became known as "the most dangerous woman in America." Through an attempted prison breakout, multiple bombing plots, and a dramatic deportation from America, these two unrelenting activists insisted on the improbable ideal of a socially just, self-governing utopia, a vision that has shaped movements across the past century, most recently Occupy Wall Street. Sasha and Emma is the culminating work of acclaimed historian of anarchism Paul Avrich. Before his death, Avrich asked his daughter to complete his magnum opus. The resulting collaboration, epic in scope, intimate in detail, examines the possibilities and perils of political faith and protest, through a pair who both terrified and dazzled the world.

Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Anarchism and anarchists
ISBN : 080149141X

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The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution by Paul Avrich Pdf

Author : James Goodwin
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Anarchism in literature
ISBN : 1433108836

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Confronting Dostoevsky's Demons by James Goodwin Pdf

Although criticized at one time for its highly tendentious spirit, Dostoevsky's Demons (1871-1872) has proven to be a novel of great polemical vitality. Originally inspired by a minor conspiratorial episode of the late 1860s, well after Dostoevsky's death (1881) the work continued to earn both acclaim and contempt for its scathing caricature of revolutionists driven by destructive, anarchic aims. The text of Demons assumed new meaning in Russian literary culture following the Bolshevik triumph of 1917, when the reestablishment and expansion of centralized state power inevitably revived interest in the radical populist tendencies of Russia's past, in particular the anarchist thought of Dostoevsky's legendary contemporary, Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876). Confronting Dostoevsky's 'Demons' is the first book to explore the life of Dostoevsky's novel in light of disputes and controversies over Bakunin's troubling legacy in Russia. Contrary to the traditional view, which assumes the obsolescence of Demons throughout much of the Communist period (1917-1991), this book demonstrates that the potential resurgence of Bakuninist thought actually encouraged reassessments of Dostoevsky's novel. By exploring the different ideas and critical strategies that motivated opposing interpretations of the novel in post-revolutionary Russia, Confronting Dostoevsky's 'Demons' reveals how the potential resurrection of Bakunin's anti-authoritarian ethos fostered the return of a politically reactionary novel to the canon of Russian classics.

Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1904859275

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Anarchist Voices by Paul Avrich Pdf

In Anarchist Voices, Avrich lets anarchists speak for themselves.

Author : Paul Avrich
Publisher : London : Thames and Hudson
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 0500760012

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The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution by Paul Avrich Pdf