Author | Voline |
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Subject | Russian history |
Publication date | 1947 |
The Unknown Revolution is a 1947 history of the Russian Revolution by Voline.
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 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]
Historian of anarchism Paul Avrich wrote that Voline's book was "the most important anarchist history of the Russian Revolution in any language".[1]