This translation of German anarchist Agustin Souchy’s work on the early years of Soviet Russia and Ukraine contains an invaluable look at other left political forces at play in the Revolution, as Souchy’s anti-authoritarian eye observes conditions and politics during his travels in Russia and Ukraine as a syndicalist German delegate to the Second Congress of the Comintern and the Provisional Council of Trade and Industrial Unions, the forerunner of the R.I.L.U. in 1920. Of particular interest today are his sections on Ukraine.

The Workers and Peasants of Russia and Ukraine: How Do They Live? by Augustine Souchy. Translated and Published by Educational Bureau of the Industrial Workers of the World, Chicago. 1922.

Contents: Introduction by George Williams, Author’s Preface, Chart of Socialist and Anarchist Movements in Russia and Ukraine, I) THE, SOCIALIST MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA, The Marxists (Social Democrats), The Narodniks (National or People’s Soc.), Social Revolutionaries of the Right, Social Revolutionaries of the Left, The Maximalists, The Anarchists, The Syndicalists, The Nabat Anarchists II) THE LAND, The Economic Position of the Peasants, The Political Position of the Peasants III) THE CITY AND INDUSTRY, The Development of the Trade Unions, The Organization of the Trade Unions, The Opposition in the Trade Unions, Rationalization or Socialization?, Trust Building or Trustification, The Home Workers and their Co-Operative Societies or Artels, Consumption, The Life of the Workers in the Cities, Workers’ Insurance, National Finance, The Soviets or Councils, The Red Army, Education, IV) THE REVOLUTION IN UKRAINE, Machno, The Socialist Movement in Ukraine, Communism and the Peasantry, The Economic Situation in Ukraine. 154 pages.

PDF of original book: https://archive.org/download/workerspeasantso00soucrich/workerspeasantso00soucrich.pdf