What happened during the Russian Revolution and why do some call it a coup d’état? This book offers the important and, often, forgotten answers. Complementing his Anarchism, Marxism and the Commune (Active Distribution, 2024), Iain McKay sets the record straight concerning the events, politicking and deception that turned the Russian Revolution int the “Red Terror.” The excuses of the Civil War, contrary to popular mythology, do not hold. Affirming anarchist history, McKay dispels the prominent myths, historical revisionism and erasure perpetuated by Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. This book honors tose who fought for liberatory revolution, and the victims of political deception and adversaries of the secret police, the Main Directorate of Correctional Labour Camps (GULAG) and, in a word, statism.

Rupture Press and Active Distribution, 2026, small book 184 pages.