Der Aufstand von Kronstadt

by Voline

Classic of Social Revolt 3 2. Edition 2008 The uprising of the Kronstadt sailors of 1921 is probably one of the most dramatic events in the young Soviet Union. For many anarchists and social revolutionaries, he embodied the chance of a "third way", beyond party autocracy and dictatorship of the proletariat. Volin reports on the events in the approx. 16,000 strong military fortress the sailors and workers took their concerns into their own hands - their demands were very socialism without cadres and self-proclaimed "avant-garde". Bad homes, bad clothes, bad food, poor working conditions in the 4th Year after the revolution, in their view, required self-organization. The fortress joined together to form a free commune to implement the demands of the revolution for which many had left their lives..

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Published November 30, 1999

About the author

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (Russian: Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум), known later as Volin or (the spelling he used) Voline, was a Russian anarchist who participated in the Russian and Ukrainian Revolutions before being forced into exile by the Bolshevik Party. He was a proponent of the anarchist organizational form known as synthesis anarchism

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