Anarchists and the Workers Movement of the First Quarter of the XXth Century in Ukraine: The Problem
Anarchists and the Workers Movement of the First Quarter of the XXth Century in Ukraine: The Problem

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the role of anarchists and anarchists-syndicalists in the labor movement in Ukraine. Starting with 1906, the anarchists-syndicalists influenced the labor movement in the largest cities of the south of Ukraine (Odessa and Ekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk), they succeeded to organize sailors of the Black Sea merchant fleet and workers of the Odessa port for a number of strikes and to create the first marine trade union organizations. After the revolution of 1917, sailors of Odessa were once again under the influence of the anarchists. The anarchists in Ukraine in 1918 were able to extend their influence over the miners and metallurgists of Donbas, the Black Sea sailors, railway workers, trying to hold socialization of the merchant fleet, mines and factories. But the power of Lenin defended the way of nationalization of industry and did everything to push the anarchists from the trade unions and labor movement in the early 1920s.

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