Timeline of Anarchism in Eastern Europe: Difference between revisions

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This is a timeline of political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in Eastern Europe that are relevant to libertarian socialism.

1903: Strandzha Republic (now Bulgaria)
1918: Free Territory of Ukraine
1921: Kronstadt Rebellion (Russia)
1939: The Hajduks of Cotovschi founded (Romania)
1968: Prague Spring (Czechoslovakia)

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 This is a timeline of political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in Eastern Europe that are relevant to [[Libertarian Socialism|libertarian socialism]].
+* 1903: [[Strandzha Commune|Strandzha Republic]] (now Bulgaria)
-== 1800s ==
+* 1918: [[Free Territory of Ukraine]]
-* 1866: [[Dmitry Karakozov]] unsuccessfully attempts to assassinated [[Tsar Alexander II]] by shooting him with a gun, but a nearby bystander wrestles him away before the shot is fired.
+* 1921: [[Kronstadt Rebellion]] (Russia)
-* 1878: [[Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky]] stabs to death General Nikolai Mezentsov, head of the Tsar's secret police, in response to the execution of Ivan Kovalsky.
+* 1939: [[The Hajduks of Cotovschi]] founded (Romania)
-* 1879: [[Grigori Goldenberg]] shoots Prince Dmitri Kropotkin (possibly related to [[Peter Kropotkin]]), the Governor of Kharkov in the Russian Empire, to death.
+* 1968: [[Prague Spring]] (Czechoslovakia)
-* 1879: [[Alexander Soloviev]] attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia. The monarch spots the weapon in his hands and flees, but Soloviev still fires five shots, all of which miss. He is captured and hanged on May 28.
-* 1880: [[Stepan Khalturin]] successfully blows up part of the [[Winter Palace (Russia)|Winter Palace]] with [[dynamite]] in an attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander II. Although the Tsar escapes unharmed, eight soldiers are killed and 45 wounded.
-* 1881: Tsar Alexander II is killed in a bomb blast by [[Narodnaya Volya]].
-== 1900s ==
-* 1903: The short-lived [[Strandzha Commune|Strandzha Republic]] forms in what is now Bulgaria.
-* 1918: The 103,000-strong [[Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine]] is formed and led by [[Nestor Makhno]], [[Viktor Belash]], [[Fyodor Shuss]] and [[Simon Karetnik]] to defend the Free Territory of Ukraine from other forces in the [[Russian Civil War]] and to sow the seeds of an anarchist revolution for the [[Peasant|peasants]] of Russia.
-* 1918: The [[Free Territory of Ukraine]] is established, holding seven million inhabitants across large parts of Ukraine. The region experiments with [[Democratic Assembly|anarchist direct democracy]], [[Democratic Education|libertarian schools]], cultural freedoms, [[Workers' Self-Management|worker-run factories]] and [[Commons|communal farming]].
-* 1921: The [[Kronstadt Rebellion]] attempts to democratise and introduce workers' control the Russian Revolution but is defeated by the Bolsheviks.
-* 1939: [[The Hajduks of Cotovschi]], an [[Anarcho-Communism|anarcho-communist]] insurgent group, forms and begins to fight the fascist regime of Romania.
-* 1944: The Polish [[Working Class|working class]] begins to partially repair, rebuild and restore industry that had been destroyed by [[Nazi Germany]] and the [[USSR]] as factories and farms are taken under [[Workers' Self-Management|workers' control]]. These measures are later reversed by a [[Authoritarian Socialism#Leninism|pro-Lenin]] government in 1947.
-* 1956: An attempted libertarian socialist revolution fails in Hungary.
-* 1968: The [[Prague Spring]] occurs as a wave of [[Strike|strikes]], workplace takeovers, [[Protest|public protests]], riots and guerilla resistance occurs all over Czechoslovakia in protest of [[Authoritarian Socialism|authoritarian socialism]].
-* 1984: [[Environmentalism|Environmentalists]] in Hungary and Czechoslovakia begin a campaign to stop the authoritarian socialist governments from constructing extremely destructive dam projects.
-== 2000s ==
-* 2009: [[2009 Kalinigrad Democracy Protests|Protests occur across Kalinigrad]] against political corruption, lack of democratic rights and harsh economic conditions. The protests fail to alter the structure of the state in a more democratic direction, but win several economic gains.
 == See Also ==