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Synopsis
The untold story of the Russian Revolution: its antecedents, its far-reaching changes, its betrayal by Bolshevik terror, and the massive resistance of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries. A famous history of the Russian revolution and is aftermath. This edition is a translation of the full text of La R volution Inconnue, first published in 1947 and then in Paris by Les ditions Pierre Belfond in 1969. It reinstates material that has been omitted from recent editions of the English-language version and reproduces the complete text of the original volumes.
Voline, writer, educator, poet and anarchist, was an outspoken activist in the Russian Revolution. Exiled by the Tsarist tribunal, later ordered to be executed by Trotsky, but rescued by protests, he never ceased to live up to his chosen nom de guerre based on the Russian word for freedom.