Publishing Information

“Anarchy and ‘Scientific’ Communism,” by Luigi Fabbri, was first published in 1922 as Anarchia e comunismo sciendfico by Libreria editrice tempos nuovi and translated by Paul Sharkey for the 1981 Cienfuegos Pamphlet The Poverty ofStadsm.

“The Soviet System or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat?,” by Rudolf Rocker, was first serialized in Fraye Arbayter Shdme as “Raten-sistem oder diktatur?,” May 15 through May 29, 1920. It was published in French in Les Temps Nouveaux as “Le systeme des soviets ou la dictature du proletariat?” that same year.

Numerous Spanish editions were based on the French. This English translation by Paul Sharkey is from the Spanish and was made for the 1981 Cienfuegos pamphlet The Poverty ofStadsm.

“The Idea of Equality and the Bolsheviks,” by Nestor Makhno, was first published in Dyelo Truda, no. 9, February 1926. It was translated by Paul Sharkey for the 1996 AK Press Makhno collection The Struggle against the State and Other Essays, edited by Alexandre Skirda.

“The State and Revolution: Theory and Practice,” by Iain McKay, was written for this volume.

“A Decade of Bolshevism,” by Alexander Berkman, was first published in Road to Freedom, December 1927.

“Preface to Ida Mett’s The Kronstadt Commune,’” by Maurice Brinton, was written for the pamphlet described below.

“The Kronstadt Commune,” by Ida Mett, was first published in 1938 as La Commune de Cronstadt: Crepuscule sanglant des soviets by Editions Spartacus. It was translated by Solidarity in 1967 for Solidarity pamphlet no. 27 The Kronstadt Commune.

“The Struggle Against Fascism Begins with the Struggle Against Bolshevism,” by Otto Riihle, was written in 1939 as part of a longer work and translated by Paul Mattick for Living Marxism, Vol. 4, no. 8, 1939.

“My Disillusionment in Russia—Afterword,” by Emma Goldman was first published by Doubleday in 1924 in My Further Disillusionment in Russia. A year earlier, the publisher had accidentally omitted twelve chapters, including the Afterword, from My Disillusionment in Russia, necessitating the follow-up book.

“Cries in the Wilderness: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid Prisoners,” by Barry Pateman, was written for this volume.

“Bolshevism and Stalinism,” by Paul Mattick. This is an abridged version of a review that first appeared in Politics, Vol. 4, no. 2, March-April 1947.

“The Role of Bolshevik Ideology in the Birth of the Bureaucracy,” by Cornelius Castoriadis, was first published as “Le Role de l’ideologie bolchevique dans la naissance de la bureaucratie (Introduction a T Opposition ouvriere d’Alexandra Kollontai)” in Socialisme ou Barbarie, 35, January 1964. Translated by David Ames Curtis for Cornelius Castoriadis, Social and Political Writings, Volume 3 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991). Ames made extensive use of Maurice Brinton’s translation for Solidarity pamphlet no. 24 in 1967, From Bolshevism to the Bureaucracy.