Anarchists, Bolsheviks, and Serge
From Daniel Guerin's _Anarchism_ (Monthly Review Press) (reprinted with permission):
During the revolutionary days that brought Kerensky's bourgeois republic to an end, the anarchists were in the forefront of the military struggle, especially in the Dvinsk regiment commanded by old libertarians like Grachoff and Fedotoff. This force dislodged the counter-revolutionary "cadets." Aided by his detachment, the anarchist Gelezniakov disbanded the Constituent Assembly: the Bolsheviks only ratified the accomplished fact. Many partizan detachments were formed or led by anarchists... and fouch unremittingly against the white armies between 1918 and 1920.
Scarcely a major city was without an anarchist or a... (From : Spunk.org.)
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In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An
officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone
predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I. and have a
brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a
beautiful maid of honor, a favorite of the Empress’s, gave his small
estate to his sister, and retired to a monastery to become a monk.
This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did not
know his inner motives, but for Prince Stepan Kasatsky himself it all
occurred so naturally that he could not imagine how he could have acted
otherwise... (From : Gutenberg.org.)
Published Essays and Pamphlets
Voltairine De Cleyreby Emma Goldman[Published privately by The Oriole Press, Berkeley
Heights, New Jersey, mcmxxxii]Edition limited to two-hundred copies of which fifty are printed
on Nuremberg deckle-edge paper for private distribution
with the compliments of the publisher
WRITTEN IN RED
Bear it aloft, O roaring flame!
Skyward aloft, where all may see.
Slaves of the world! our cause is the same;
One is the immemorial shame;
One is the struggle, and in One name--
MANHOOD--we battle to set men free.VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE
THE FIRST TIME I MET HER--THIS MOST GIFTED AND BRILLIANT
ANARCHIST WOMAN AMERICA EVER PRODUCED--was in Philadelphia, in
August 1893. I had come to that city... (From : University of Berkeley.)