Activities and affiliations

What people did, and whom they served in that activity.

Activity

All 2 Military command 1 Ideology and propaganda 1

State, movement or organization

All 83 Soviet Union 66 People’s Republic of China 5 Hungary 2 Soviet Ukraine 2 Comintern 2 Benin 1 Germany state institutions 1 Russian Empire 1 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1
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Benin

Benin 1

China

People’s Republic of China 5

East Germany

East Germany 1

Germany

Germany state institutions 1

Hungary

Hungary 2 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1

International organizations

Comintern 2 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Russia

Russian Empire 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Union 66

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine 2 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1

Ideology and propaganda · Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) people 1

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Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum

Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум
Ideology and propaganda Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) Soviet Union Russia 1882–1945 ○ Tuberculosis

Russian anarchist intellectual who theorized anarchist synthesis and chronicled the revolution the Bolsheviks suppressed

In Golos Truda, 1917: 'Once their power has been consolidated and legalized, the Bolsheviks… will start running the life of the country and of the people from the top. They will develop an authoritarian political and state apparatus that will crush all opposition with an iron fist.'

Russian anarchist intellectual and leading theorist of the Makhnovshchina. Editor of Golos Truda in Petrograd, co-founder of the Nabat Confederation in Ukraine, and chairman of the Makhnovist Military Revolutionary Council, he developed the theory of anarchist synthesis to unite communist, individualist, and syndicalist anarchists. After exile from Soviet Russia in 1922, he wrote The Unknown Revolution, the definitive anarchist history of 1917–1921, and opposed the Platformist centralization pushed by his comrade Makhno.

Career timeline
  • 1904Drops out of St. Petersburg University law faculty; joins Socialist Revolutionary Party; organizes workers' study groups
  • 1905Participates in Bloody Sunday march and helps form the St. Petersburg Soviet; imprisoned at Peter and Paul Fortress
  • 1907Arrested by Okhrana, deported to Siberia; escapes and flees to France
  • 1911Becomes anarchist under Apollon Karelin's influence; joins Brotherhood of Free Communists in Paris
  • 1915–1916Flees anti-war persecution in France to USA; edits Golos Truda in New York
  • 1917Returns to Petrograd after February Revolution; relaunches Golos Truda as leading anarcho-syndicalist organ
  • 1918–1920Co-founds Nabat Confederation in Ukraine; chairs Makhnovist Military Revolutionary Council; arrested twice by Cheka
  • 1922Exiled from Soviet Russia after hunger strike and Profintern delegate intervention
  • 1924–1939Moves to Paris at Sébastien Faure's invitation; contributes to Anarchist Encyclopedia; writes for anarchist periodicals in five languages
  • 1940Completes The Unknown Revolution in Marseille while living in poverty
  • 1945Dies of tuberculosis in Paris; buried at Père Lachaise near Nestor Makhno