The Guillotine at Work - Gregory Maximoff The Bolshevik Myth - Alexander Berkman The Unknown Revolution -Voline 1917- Voline (about 1/3 of the above work concentrating just on 1917) The Russian Anarchists - Paul Avrich (worth getting hold of his Russian Rebels for an account of earlier events) The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution - Paul Avrich (Collection of contemporary anarchist leaflets and articles) History of the Maknovist Movement - P. Arshinov The Struggle Against the State and other Essays - Nestor Makhno The Russian Enigma - Ante Ciliga The Bolsheviks and Workers Control - Maurice Brinton Kronstadt 1917-21: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy - Israel Getzler Kronstadt 1921 - Paul Avrich Kronstadt and Petrograd in 1917 - F.F Raskolinikov (Bolshevik account - doesn‘t cover the uprising though) Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising - Alexander Rabinbowitch (dispels most of the Bolsheviks lies about the ‘July days’ and gives a very favourable impression of anarchist activity) The Civil War in Russia - David Footman The Origin of the Communist Autocracy: Political opposition in the Soviet State in the First Phase 1917-22 - Leonard Schapiro The Conscience of the Revolution : Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia - R.V Daniels A Documentary History of Communism Volume 1: Communism in Russia - ed. R.V Daniels My Disillusionment in Russia and My Further Disillusionment in Russia - Emma Goldman The Soviets: The Russian Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers Councils 1905-1921 - Oskar Anweiler Class Struggles in the USSR Volume 1, 1917-23 and Volume 2, 1923-30 - Charles Bethlehem (Maoist influenced account, but provides masses of evidence for the anarchists criticisms of the USSR) Russia Twenty Years after - Victor Serge (written when he was starting the break from Trotskyism) Year One of the Bolshevik Revolution - Victor Serge (written when he’d just broke from anarchism and was a full on lying Bolshevik , so beware - but he’ such a good writer it’s worth reading) Revolution in Danger - Victor Serge (Ditto) From Lenin to Stalin - Victor Serge Memoirs of a Revolutionary - Victor Serge (Beware! Serge finds himself being correct in his estimation of nearly every situation he finds himself in, so take with a pinch of salt!) Stalin - Boris Souvarine History of the Russian Revolution, 3 Volumes - Trotsky (worth reading to see what a bare-faced liar he is) The Bolshevik Revolution , 3 Volumes - E.H Carr (Well worth reading, and using as a reference to check facts from). The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars - Ed. By Vladimir Brovkin (Good collection of articles that highlight opposition to the Bolsheviks) Voices of Revolution, 1917 - Mark D. Steinberg (collection of original material from 1917, not party publications but letters, self-taught poetry and similar stuff from ‘the people’) Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories - S.A. Smith Bread and Justice: State and Society in Petrograd, 1917-1922 - M. McAuley Soviet Communists in Power. A Study of Moscow During the Civil War, 1918-1921 - R. Sakwa Workers against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship - J.Aves Before Stalinism; The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy - Samuel Farber Workers Control and Socialist Democracy - C. Sirianni The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917 - ed. D. Kaiser
The Bolshevik Myth - Alexander Berkman
The Unknown Revolution -Voline
1917- Voline (about 1/3 of the above work concentrating just on 1917)
The Russian Anarchists - Paul Avrich (worth getting hold of his Russian Rebels for an account of earlier events)
The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution - Paul Avrich (Collection of contemporary anarchist leaflets and articles)
History of the Maknovist Movement - P. Arshinov
The Struggle Against the State and other Essays - Nestor Makhno
The Russian Enigma - Ante Ciliga
The Bolsheviks and Workers Control - Maurice Brinton
Kronstadt 1917-21: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy - Israel Getzler
Kronstadt 1921 - Paul Avrich
Kronstadt and Petrograd in 1917 - F.F Raskolinikov (Bolshevik account - doesn‘t cover the uprising though)
Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising - Alexander Rabinbowitch (dispels most of the Bolsheviks lies about the ‘July days’ and gives a very favourable impression of anarchist activity)
The Civil War in Russia - David Footman
The Origin of the Communist Autocracy: Political opposition in the Soviet State in the First Phase 1917-22 - Leonard Schapiro
The Conscience of the Revolution : Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia - R.V Daniels
A Documentary History of Communism Volume 1: Communism in Russia - ed. R.V Daniels
My Disillusionment in Russia and My Further Disillusionment in Russia - Emma Goldman
The Soviets: The Russian Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers Councils 1905-1921 - Oskar Anweiler
Class Struggles in the USSR Volume 1, 1917-23 and Volume 2, 1923-30 - Charles Bethlehem (Maoist influenced account, but provides masses of evidence for the anarchists criticisms of the USSR)
Russia Twenty Years after - Victor Serge (written when he was starting the break from Trotskyism)
Year One of the Bolshevik Revolution - Victor Serge (written when he’d just broke from anarchism and was a full on lying Bolshevik , so beware - but he’ such a good writer it’s worth reading)
Revolution in Danger - Victor Serge (Ditto)
From Lenin to Stalin - Victor Serge
Memoirs of a Revolutionary - Victor Serge (Beware! Serge finds himself being correct in his estimation of nearly every situation he finds himself in, so take with a pinch of salt!)
Stalin - Boris Souvarine
History of the Russian Revolution, 3 Volumes - Trotsky (worth reading to see what a bare-faced liar he is)
The Bolshevik Revolution , 3 Volumes - E.H Carr (Well worth reading, and using as a reference to check facts from).
The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars - Ed. By Vladimir Brovkin (Good collection of articles that highlight opposition to the Bolsheviks)
Voices of Revolution, 1917 - Mark D. Steinberg (collection of original material from 1917, not party publications but letters, self-taught poetry and similar stuff from ‘the people’)
Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories - S.A. Smith
Bread and Justice: State and Society in Petrograd, 1917-1922 - M. McAuley
Soviet Communists in Power. A Study of Moscow During the Civil War, 1918-1921 - R. Sakwa
Workers against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship - J.Aves
Before Stalinism; The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy - Samuel Farber
Workers Control and Socialist Democracy - C. Sirianni
The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917 - ed. D. Kaiser