The Unknown Revolution

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The Unknown Revolution
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Author Voline
Subject Russian history
Publication date
1947

The Unknown Revolution is a 1947 history of the Russian Revolution by Volin.

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Publication

Voline finished the book in 1940 while in Marseilles. [1] After his death in 1945, [2] 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. [3]

The book was translated into English in two parts by the Libertarian Book Club. [2] [4] The first volume, Nineteen-Seventeen: The Russian Revolution Betrayed, in 1954, [2] and the second volume, The Unknown Revolution: Kronstadt 1921, Ukraine 1918–21, in 1956. [4]

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". [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Avrich 1988, p. 132.
  2. 1 2 3 Roberts, Henry L. (1955). "Recent Books on International Relations". Foreign Affairs. 34 (1): 163. doi:10.2307/20031149. ISSN   0015-7120. JSTOR   20031149.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. 1 2 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.

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