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| Author | Voline |
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| Subject | Russian history |
| Publication date | 1947 |
The Unknown Revolution is a 1947 history of the Russian Revolution by Volin.
Publication
Voline finished the book in 1940 while in Marseilles. After his death in 1945, it was first published posthumously in 1947. Following 1968 events in France, the book was republished in French paperback without additional editorial content by Pierre Belfond [fr] as part of a series by Daniel Guérin and Jean-Jacques Lebel.
The book was translated into English in two parts by the Libertarian Book Club. The first volume, Nineteen-Seventeen: The Russian Revolution Betrayed, in 1954, and the second volume, The Unknown Revolution: Kronstadt 1921, Ukraine 1918–21, in 1956.
Reception and legacy
Historian of anarchism Paul Avrich wrote that Voline's book was "the most important anarchist history of the Russian Revolution in any language".
References
- ^ Avrich 1988, p. 132.
- ^ Roberts, Henry L. (1955). "Recent Books on International Relations". Foreign Affairs. 34 (1): 163. doi:10.2307/20031149. ISSN 0015-7120. JSTOR 20031149.
- "Two classic texts of the history of the Russian Revolution...". The Times Literary Supplement. No. 3569. July 23, 1970. p. 816. ISSN 0307-661X. Gale EX1200533683.
- ^ Roberts, Henry L. (January 1957). "Recent Books on International Relations". Foreign Affairs. Vol. 35, no. 2. p. 363. doi:10.2307/20031231. ISSN 0015-7120. JSTOR 20031231. EBSCOhost 14737860.
Bibliography
- Avrich, Paul (1988). "V. M. Eikhenbaum (Volin): The Man and His Book". Anarchist Portraits. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 125–134. ISBN 0-691-04753-7. OCLC 17727270.
Further reading
- Carr, E. H. (April 27, 1956). "Anarchist Risings". The Times Literary Supplement. No. 2826. p. 248. ISSN 0307-661X. Gale EX1200103889.
- Miller, Martin A. (1976). "Anarchism vs. Marxism in the Russian Revolution. A Review of Recent Literature". International Labor and Working-Class History. 9 (9): 28–37. doi:10.1017/S0147547900016082. ISSN 0147-5479. JSTOR 27671203. S2CID 143620019.
- "The Unknown Revolution 1917–1921". CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. July 1975. p. 736. ISSN 0009-4978. Gale A31688997.
- Thompson, John M. (1972). "La Révolution Inconnue, 1917-1921: Documentation Inédite Sur La Révolution Russe. by Voline". Slavic Review. 31 (1): 165–166. doi:10.2307/2494166. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2494166. S2CID 165040777.
External links
- Full text (in French) from Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Fredy Perlman's English translation of The Unknown Revolution via Libcom.org
- Iain McKay's Introduction to PM Press's 2019 edition of The Unknown Revolution.
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