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Volin
Волин
Portrait photograph of Volin
Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council of the Makhnovshchina
In office
1 September 1919 – 31 January 1920
Preceded byNestor Makhno
Succeeded byDmitry Popov
Personal details
Born
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum

23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1882
Voronezh, Russian Empire
Died18 September 1945(1945-09-18) (aged 63)
Paris, French Republic
Resting placePère Lachaise Cemetery
Political partySocialist Revolutionary (1904–1911)
Other political
affiliations
Relatives
EducationSaint Petersburg State University
Occupation
  • Politician
  • writer

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.

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]

  1. Russian: Всеволод Михайлович Эйхенбаум, romanized: Vsevolod Mikhaylovich Eykhenbaum; Yiddish: ווסעוואָלאָד מיכאילאָוויטש אייכענבוים
  2. French: Voline; Russian: Во́лин; Yiddish: וואָלין

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Avrich 1988, p. 134; Guérin 2005, p. 475; Patterson 2020, pp. 28–31.