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Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (VII)
(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) Beyond Kronstadt … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (VI)
(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) Kronstadt, an … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (V)
(On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists. We are posting articles by Alexei Gusev, Samuel Clarke, Paul Le Blanc, Daniel Fischer, and Tom Harrison. -Eds.) The Kronstadt … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (IV)
… anarchism is not an imaginary dream, but a reality which gives logic and a realistic sense to the revolt of the human spirit against violence. To be anarchist one does not have to speak of fictions such as “absolute, … Continue reading
Thinking politics from Sergei Loznitsa’s “State Funeral”
A revolution’s most important works of art are the men produced by it. New fiery souls are seen to arise from the explosion of new life that cleaves the convulsed world, like anthems that fill the air with clamours of … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Groys, Communism, revolution, russian revolution, Sergei Loznitsa, Soren Kierkegaard, State and terror, State terror
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The Kronstadt Uprising: A View from within the Revolt
From the CrimethInc. collective, an excellent review of and reflection on the Kronstadt Rebellion … The Kronstadt Uprising: A View from within the Revolt On the 100-Year Anniversary of the Rebellion In March 1921, an uprising on the island fortress … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (III)
On 1 March, 1921, the Kronstadt Soviet rose in revolt against the regime of the Russian “Communist” Party. The Civil War was effectively over, with the last of the White armies in European Russia defeated in November, 1920. The remaining … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion (II)
From Roarmag (01/03/2021) magazine … Recovering the anarchism of the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion Alexander Herbert The anarchist roots of the Kronstadt Rebellion have long been denied, but the plurality of anti-Bolshevik resistance in Soviet Russia harbors important lessons for movements … Continue reading
Remembering the Kronstadt Rebellion
From Roarmag (01/03/2021) magazine … “Seventeen dreadful days”: Emma Goldman on the Kronstadt Rebellion On March 1, 1921, a citizen’s assembly in Kronstadt approved the Petropavlovsk Resolution listing 15 demands to the Bolshevik government in Petrograd. This date marks the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Emma Goldman, Kronstadt Rebellion, russian revolution
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A portrait of Nestor Makhno
tradition is not to preserve the ashes but to pass on the flame For our times of war, we share a portrait of the anarchist Nestor Makhno, by Alexander Berkman. Nestor Makhno, The Man Who Saved the Bolsheviki: Personal Recollections … Continue reading →