{"id":2531,"date":"2024-11-16T14:19:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T13:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/?post_type=product&#038;p=2531"},"modified":"2026-03-21T11:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:55:24","slug":"the-unknown-revolution-1917-1921","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/product\/the-unknown-revolution-1917-1921\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unknown Revolution: 1917\u20131921"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tab-description\" class=\"tab-content\">\n<p>This is the untold story of the Russian Revolution: its antecedents, its far-reaching changes, its betrayal by Bolshevik terror, and the massive resistance of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries. This in-depth, eyewitness history written by Voline, an outspoken activist in the Russian Revolution, is accompanied by a biography of the author by Rudolf Rocker and a contemporary introduction by anarchist historian Iain McKay<\/p>\n<p>Significant attention is given to what the author describes as \u201cstruggles for the real Social Revolution\u201d; that is, the uprising of the sailors and workers of Kronstadt in 1921, and the peasant movement that Nestor Makhno led in Ukraine. These movements, which sought to defend the social revolution from destruction by the politicians, provide important material for a clearer understanding of both the original objectives of the Russian Revolution and the problems with which all revolutions with far-reaching social objectives have to contend.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on the revolutionary press of the time, Voline reveals the deep cleavage between the objectives of the libertarians and those of the Bolsheviks, differences which the latter \u201cresolved\u201d by ruthlessly eliminating all who stood in their way in the struggle for power.<\/p>\n<p>This edition is a translation of the full text of <em>La R\u00e9volution inconnue<\/em>, originally published in French in 1947. It reinstates material omitted from earlier English-language editions and reproduces the complete text of the original volumes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Praise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cA fascinating and valuable book\u2014a combination of history, eyewitness account, and partisan advocacy\u2014about the Russian revolution of 1917\u201321.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014<strong>Stephen<\/strong> <strong>F. Cohen<\/strong>, author of <em>Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn rich detail Voline documents the efforts of workers, peasants, and intellectuals to inaugurate a free society based on local initiative and autonomy. . . . It should be read by every person interested in the anarchist movement and the Russian Revolution.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014<strong>Paul<\/strong> <strong>Avrich<\/strong>, author of <em>The Russian Anarchists<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe uniqueness of his work consists not only in the events that the author has selected for analysis but also in the anarchist point of view. Neither would be found in Soviet or Western academic literature of the Revolution.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014<em>Choice<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cOne of the most coherent and comprehensive personal accounts of the Russian Revolution, of the nature of the Bolshevik State from its birth in 1917 through to its suppression of both the Kronstadt uprising of 1921 and of the Makhnovist peasant movement in the Ukraine between 1918 and 1921.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014<strong>Stuart<\/strong> <strong>Christie<\/strong>, author of <em>Granny Made Me an Anarchist<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About the Contributors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Voline <\/strong>(Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, 1882\u20131945), writer, educator, poet, and anarchist, was an outspoken activist in the Russian Revolution. Exiled by the Tsarist tribunal, then sentenced to death by Trotsky and rescued amid protests, he never ceased to live up to his chosen nom de guerre based on the Russian word for freedom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iain McKay <\/strong>is an independent anarchist writer and researcher. He was the main author of <em>An Anarchist FAQ <\/em>as well as numerous other works, including <em>Mutual Aid: An Introduction and Evaluation<\/em>. In addition, he has edited and introduced <em>Property Is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology<\/em>; <em>Direct Struggle Against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology<\/em>; and Kropotkin\u2019s 1913 book <em>Modern Science and Anarchy<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rudolf Rocker<\/strong> (1873\u20131958) was one of the most prominent writers, speakers, and activists of anarchism\u2019s classical period. His works include <em>Nationalism and Culture<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice.<\/em> Rocker was an outspoken critic of the suppression of individual freedom and anarchism under Russian communism and a supporter of the Kronstadt uprising and Nestor Makhno\u2019s peasant movement in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Author<\/strong>: Voline \u2022 <strong>Introduction<\/strong>: Iain McKay \u2022 <strong>Foreword<\/strong>: Rudolf Rocker<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher<\/strong>: PM Press<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN<\/strong>: 9781629635774<br \/>\n<strong>Published<\/strong>: May 2019<br \/>\n<strong>Format<\/strong>: Paperback<br \/>\n<strong>Size<\/strong>: 6\u00d79<br \/>\n<strong>Page<\/strong> <strong>count<\/strong>: 832<br \/>\n<strong>Subjects<\/strong>: History-Russia \/ Politics-Anarchism<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"featured_media":2530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[127,30],"product_tag":[176,223,54,204],"class_list":{"0":"post-2531","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books-en","7":"product_cat-books1312","8":"product_tag-pm-press","9":"product_tag-volin","10":"product_tag-istoriya","11":"product_tag-repressii","12":"desktop-align-center","13":"tablet-align-center","14":"mobile-align-center","16":"first","17":"outofstock","18":"sale","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}