Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups

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The Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups (MFAG) was a network of anarchist groups established in Moscow, Russia in 1917. They occupied the Merchants' House shortly after the February Revolution. [1] They published Anarkhiia , weekly after its launch in September 1917 and then as a daily from March 1918. Following the October Revolution of November 1917, they were involved in the development of the Black Guards into a significant military force in Moscow. On 3 March 1918 the Bolsheviks signed the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, which precipitated a political crisis with their erstwhile allies amongst the Anarchists and Left Socialist Revolutionaries. On 12 April, 1918 the Bolshevik authorities moved against the Anarchists: 26 centres were raided in Moscow, forty anarchists were killed and over 500 were arrested. [2]

Lev Chernyi was the secretary of MFAG. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Avrich, Paul (1967). "The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution". The Russian Review. 26 (4): 341–350. doi:10.2307/126893. ISSN   0036-0341. JSTOR   126893.
  2. ↑ Romberg, Kristin (2018). Gan's constructivism : aesthetic theory for an embedded modernism. Oakland, California: University of California Press. ISBN   9780520298538.
  3. ↑ "Prominent Anarchists and Left-Libertarians". Archived from the original on 2010-10-28. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
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