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[RUSSIAN ANARCHISTS IN NEW YORK] Izbrannye sochineniya [i.e. Selected works]. Vol.1 [and all]

Bakunin, Mikhail

Item #2564

[New York]: F.A.K.G., 1920. LXVI, 363, [2] p., 2 portraits. 19,6x12,5 cm.

Original cloth binding, slightly scuffed. Good clean copy.

America, it was printed by Federation of Anarchist-Communist Groups – the international umbrella association, created in 1914. In 1908, a conference of Russian anarchist communists was held in Geneva, where members of the Burevestnik group, the "old" group, and the editorial board of the Khleb i Volya newspaper (led by G. I. Gogelia) united to form the Union of Russian Anarchist Communists. At the First Unification Conference of Russian Anarchist Communists in London (December 28, 1913 – January 1, 1914), a decision was made to establish a Federation of Anarchist-Communist Groups Abroad and to publish the first federated newspaper, Rabochy Mir.

Extensive preface by Varlaam Aslanovich Cherkezishvili (1846-1925) – one of the founders of anarcho-communism, the friend and follower of Kropotkin, he wrote under the pen-name Cherkezov. In 1900s he was the editor in chief of first legally printed anarchic periodicals in Russia, when living in Saint-Petersburg. He was also foundational in establishing the desire of Georgia to become an independent nation, lives in Tbilisi in 1917-1921, before the fall of short-lived socialist republic.
The edition was prepared with the help of The Union of Russian Workers in US – anarcho-socialist organization of the ‘zero wave’. The organization was founded in New York in 1908 by anarchists who emigrated from the Russian Empire after the Revolution of 1905–1907. One of its founders and leaders was Vladimir Shatov. Initially, the organization was anarchist-communist, but in 1912 it became anarcho-syndicalist and established close relations with the Industrial Workers of the World.
By 1917, the Union of Russian Workers of the USA and Canada had approximately 10,000 members in more than 50 cities in the United States and Canada.
The works of Bakunin, included in the volume were The Slavic Question, Federalism, Socialism and Antitheologism, The Politics of the International, Letters to the Comrades of the International Workingmen’s Association, God and the State, The People's Cause.

Very rare.

Price: $500.00