The Russian Revolution and Anarchist Imaginaries

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Research Article| October 01 2017 The Russian Revolution and Anarchist Imaginaries Kathy E. Ferguson Kathy E. Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (4): 745–761. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-4234983 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Kathy E. Ferguson; The Russian Revolution and Anarchist Imaginaries. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 2017; 116 (4): 745–761. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-4234983 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsSouth Atlantic Quarterly Search Advanced Search This essay looks at the Russian Revolution as both a historical event and a productive symbol in the work of anarchists in the United States and Russia in the early twentieth century. The February and October Revolutions were formative in many ways: many immigrants returned to participate in them, others were deported back to Russia, and still others remained in the West but shaped their politics in dialogue with the Russian revolutionaries. The political spaces created by the revolution, including the soviets, museums, and journals, and the literary, artistic, and political creativity of the revolutionary period fertilized anarchist imaginations for many generations to come, while the ascendency of the Bolsheviks left a lasting legacy about the dangers of the wrong kind of revolution. Later anarchist revolutionary practices in Spain, along with steadfast activism on behalf of political prisoners, were stimulated in part by the uneven inheritance from the earlier Russian Revolution. anarchism, political prisoners, revolution The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press2017 You do not currently have access to this content.