Kronstadt
Yarchuk, Efim, 1882 or 1886-1937
A short biography of Efim Yarchuk, who played an important role in the rebellious town of Kronstadt.
Yarchuk, Efim Zakharovich aka Khaim Zakharev - Also rendered as Yarchook, Yartchuk, Iarchuk etc.
“a man who enjoyed exceptional influence among the sailors and workers and whose idealism and devotion are matters of historic record” - My Disillusionment in Russia. Emma Goldman
The Truth about Kronstadt
A translation of Pravda o Kronshtadte, produced by SRs shortly after the event in 1921.
This version is taken from: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhuey/HOME.html Copyright © 1992, 1998 by Scott Zenkatsu Parker.
The author permits the unlimited duplication, transmission, and distribution of this text with the proper citations for academic, educational, and non-commercial use only.
1921: Kronstadt: Proletarian spin-off of the Russian Revolution - Cajo Brendel
Cajo Brendel's pamphlet on the Kronstadt rebellion
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Mett, Ida, 1901-1973
A short biography Ida Mett, Russian anarchist and author of The Kronstadt Commune about the uprising against the new Bolshevik dictatorship following the Russian Revolution.
Ida Mett
Born Ida Gilman, July 1901 - Smorgon’, Russia, died 27 June 1973 - Paris, France
1921: The Kronstadt rebellion
The history of the rising of the naval town of Kronstadt in Russia by workers and sailors supporting the original aims of the 1917 Revolution against the new Bolshevik dictatorship. The rebellion was crushed by Red Army troops under Trotsky's command.
The Kronstadt rebellion took place in the first weeks of March, 1921. Kronstadt was (and is) a naval fortress on an island in the Gulf of Finland. Traditionally, it has served as the base of the Russian Baltic Fleet and to guard the approaches to the city of St. Petersburg (which during the first world war was re-named Petrograd, then later Leningrad, and is now St.
The Kronstadt Uprising of 1921 - Lynne Thorndycraft
The story of the Kronstadt revolt, compactly told, a decisive moment in the Bolshevik counter-revolution.
Since this pamphlet was written Israel Getzler's book Kronstadt 1917-1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 1983, has appeared.
Kronstadt '21 - Victor Serge
We reproduce an excerpt from Memoirs of a Revolutionary, (1945) by Victor Serge on the Kronstadt rebellion against the Bolshevik autocracy, its dictatorship over the proletariat. Despite Serge remaining an (albeit highly critical) Bolshevik apologist and remaining in the camp of those who claimed Kronstadt as 'a tragic necessity', he is honest enough to describe the facts of the situation in their own damning terms.
For instance, the first act of the Bolshevik hierarchy was to publicly lie about the nature of the revolt, both to loyal party members and to the rest of society; they claimed that it was a revolt of the White generals to restore the old regime. This was the first lie of many about the rebellion that have been perpetuated ever since by Bolshevik apologists.
Remember Kronstadt - Wildcat
Wildcat (UK) give a brief history of the Kronstadt fortress, from 1905 to 1921 on the 70th anniversary of the uprising (1991).
The 70th anniversary of the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union, giving us two convenient excuses to reexamine the Russian revolution. This brief history of the naval fortress-town in the Gulf of Finland gives us a particular viewpoint on the revolution itself: the viewpoint of some of its most combative participants.
The Strategy and Nature of Bolshevism
The final chapters of Gabriel and Dany Cohn-Bendit's book Obsolete Communism, the Left-Wing Alternative, which deal with the theory and practice of the Lenin, Trotsky and Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution
Kronstadt 1921: An analysis of Bolshevik propaganda - Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman analyzes the Bolshevik propaganda over Kronstadt, including the claim it was a "White Plot" led by the Tsarist general Kozlovsky (pictured)
Kronstadt 1921: An Analysis of Bolshevik Propaganda
Chapter 27 - Kronstadt
Kronstadt
Zhelezniakov, Anatoli, 1895-1919
A short biography of Russian anarchist and Kronstadt sailor Anatoli Zhelezniakov.
Anatoli Grigorievich Zhelezniakov
Born 1895 - Russia, died 1919 - Russia
Zhelezniakov was a young sailor serving on a minelayer based at the naval base of Kronstadt when the rule of the Tsar was overthrown in Russia in February 1917. He was already an anarchist, subscribing to anarchist communist ideas as put forward by people like Kropotkin.
Kronstadt Izvestia
Archive of the publication of the Kronstadt rebels, who fought to protect the gains of the Russian Revolution from the new Bolshevik authoritarianism.
Izvestia of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of Sailors, Soldiers and Workers of the town of Kronstadt - Issues 1-14, March 3-March 16, 1921.
Sometimes spelled: Isvestiia, Isvestia, Izvestia, Izvestiia, Isvestiya]
Translated by Scott Zenkatsu Parker and edited by Mary Huey
Beyond Kronstadt - the Bolsheviks in Power - "MK"
"MK" analyses the Russian Revolution, attempting a broader critical analysis than the usual back and forth over Kronstadt, including the arguments within the Bolshevik party between Lennin and the "left-communists", and the demise of the factory committees.
Beyond Kronstadt - the Bolsheviks in power
"MK"
An understanding of the Russian revolution is vital for any understanding of why the left failed in the 20th century. Yet most discussion amongst revolutionaries never goes beyond the usual argument about the Kronstadt rebellion.
The Kronstadt Revolt - Ante Ciliga
Ante Ciliga discusses the question of Kronstadt, at the time of Trotsky's later writings about the event.
The Kronstadt Revolt
Ante Ciliga
Trotsky Protests Too Much - Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman's pamphlet answering the Trotskyist account of the Kronstadt rebellion.
TROTSKY PROTESTS TOO MUCH By Emma Goldman
PRICE TWOPENCE In America Five Cents
Published by THE ANARCHIST COMMUNIST FEDERATION [Glasgow, Scotland, 1938]
INTRODUCTION.
The Kronstadt Uprising of 1921 - Ida Mett
Ida Mett's history of the Kronstadt uprising highlights one of the most important yet neglected events of the Russian Revolution.
The suppression of the most revolutionary section of the Navy by the Bolsheviks was the final blow to any hope of a genuine revolution based on democratic workers' control. Mett dispels many of the contemporary mistruths put forward by Bolshevik propagandists and includes a number of original sources from the commune.
THE KRONSTADT UPRISING 1921
by Ida Mett
