Eikhenbaum VOLIN was a Russian publicist, poet, historian of the anarchist movement. Member of the revolutionary movement since 1905. His archive is at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
Background
Eikhenbaum Volin was born on the 8th of August, 1882 in the city of Tikhvin, Novgorod Province. Died on the 18th of September, 1945 in Paris, France.
In 1907 he was sentenced to an eternal settlement in Siberia, fled on his way there, spent his last night in St. Petersburg with his brother and moved to France, but in July 1917 returned back to Russia. Lived in Germany, since 1923 in France.
Education
In 1901, graduated from the 1st Voronezh Male High School, studied at the Faculty of Law in the St. Petersburg University.
Career
At the end of the summer of 1918, the lecturer of the Voronezh gubono. From August 1919, one of the closest associates of Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, the ideologist of the Makhnovist movement. In 1920, he was arrested twice by Soviet authorities. In January 1922, was expelled from among other anarchists from Russia.
In the 1930s Secretary NI Makhno. Since the early 1910's actively published in anarchist publications in Paris, New York, Kharkov. Editor of the Makhnov newspaper "The Way to Freedom." Participated in the preparation of memoirs of Nestor Ivanovich Makhno.
Religion
Since 1911, anarchist communist, since 1914 anarchist syndicalist.