In October 2020 the CamCREES/Slavonic Studies community at 海角社区 hosted an听exciting webinar on Anarchism in Russia, with听presentations by听Ania Aizman听(University of Michigan) and听Maria Rakhmaninova听(St. Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences).
The event was free and听open to the public.
Followers of Russian anarchists Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin, anarchists have fought against every kind of regime since the movement鈥檚 inception鈥攖sarist, monarchist, state socialist, and liberal-democratic. It achieved听brief political victories in their quest for a stateless society. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Russian Empire itself saw the emergence of a diverse anarchist movement, with participants numbering in the tens of thousands and an anarchist network that spanned the breadth of the empire. The Bolshevik Party swiftly crushed this movement when it seized power, and anarchism never became a mass phenomenon in Russia again. In this webinar, we听consider: Does anarchism matter? Does a 鈥淩ussian鈥� anarchism exist? What can the past, present, and future prospects of this radical movement tell us about Russian culture?
Watch the session below:
