Paul Avrich

Avrich, Paul

Russian-American anarchist writing extensively on the activity of anarchists in the 1917 Russian revolution.

Mollie Steimer, 1897-1980 - Paul Avrich

The life of Mollie Steimer, a Jewish anarchist in New York who opposed the First World War, and later lived in exile in France and Mexico.

Mollie Steimer: An Anarchist Life
By Paul Avrich

Stormy Petrel - Zhelezniakov, Anatoli, 1895 - 1919

A short sketch of the life of a young Russian anarchist sailor who, in collaboration with the Bolsheviks and others, was on hand to disperse both the Provisional Government in October 1917 and the Constituent Assembly in January 1918.

A very slightly revised version appears as Chapter 6 of "Anarchist Portraits" by Paul Avrich, Princeton University Press, 1988.

Paul Avrich obituary - The Guardian

Obituary of Russian-American anarchist historian Paul Avrich by Stuart Christie from The Guardian, Monday April 10, 2006

Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin: G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group - Paul Avrich

Paul Avrich's article from 1984 about G.T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group

Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin:
G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group
Paul Avrich

(RUSSIAN REVIEW, Vol. 43, 1984 pp. 1-29)

Anarchists in the Russian Revolution - Paul Avrich

The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution, Paul Avrich. We present this in PDF format (270kb) but hope to convert it to text in the near future.

Russian Anarchists and the Civil War - Paul Avrich

Paul Avrich discusses the position of anarchists during the Civil War in Russia, including Makhno in the Ukraine and the repression of anarchists in Russia itself.

Russian Anarchists and the Civil War

Paul Avrich

from Russian Review, Volume 27, Issue 3 (Jul., 1968), 296-306.