The Unknown Revolution

The Unknown Revolution
AuthorVoline
SubjectRussian 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.[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. ^ a b Avrich 1988, p. 132.
  2. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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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