Volin
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum[a] (23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1882 – 18 September 1945), commonly known by his pseudonym Volin,[b] was a Russian anarchist activist. He became involved in revolutionary socialist politics during the 1905 Russian Revolution. He was forced into exile, where his beliefs soon became anarcho-syndicalism.
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Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council of the Makhnovshchina | |
In office 1 September 1919 – 31 January 1920 | |
Preceded by | Nestor Makhno |
Succeeded by | Dmitry Popov |
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Born | Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum 23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1882 Voronezh, Russian Empire |
Died | 18 September 1945 (aged 63) Paris, French Republic |
Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Political party | Socialist Revolutionary (1904–1911) |
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Education | Saint Petersburg State University |
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In 1940, while living in poverty in Marseilles, he completed his work on The Unknown Revolution, a history of the Russian Revolution.[1] After the invasion of France by Nazi Germany and the creation of the French State, he was forced to hide because of his Jewish heritage and his anarchist political beliefs. However by the time the liberation of France allowed him to return to Paris, he had got sick with tuberculosis. On 18 September 1945, Volin died in a Parisian hospital.[1]
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change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Avrich 1988, p. 134 ; Guérin 2005, p. 475 ; Patterson 2020, pp. 28–31 .