Remember Kronstadt One Hundred Years On (A6)
A century ago, Lenin's communists turned their guns on rebelling sailors once hailed as the "pride and glory" of the Bolshevik Revolution. This is the story of those true revolutionaries, one told by an anonymous poster on Libcom and the other a UK based anarchist paper called Wildcat, written in 1991.
From the pamphlet:
"A hundred years ago the end of the Russian Revolution came about as the Bolshevik forces under Trotsky and Lenin ordered the slaughter of the revolutiuonaries of Kronstadt. The two articles contained in this booklet tell that story, and serve as stark reminders as to why anarchists believe revolution can never succeed when imposed by a supposedly revolutionary government."
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