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On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:04:58AM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:

>0: There are revolutionary anarchists who believe in revolution to get
>   to the anarchist society. This is a rather specialised form of 
>   evolving an anarchist society from a failed state. And was
>   particularly popular at the time of Tsarist Russia which
>   interestingly enough is the form of society you get if you leave a
>   failed state such as Somalia to stew for several centuries.

I don't know where you got that. The major players in the first Russian
revolution were the "White Army", loyal to the Czar, the "Red Army",
loyal to Lenin, and a third army, whose name I forgot which was composed
of everyone else.

After the Czar was removed from power, and probably murdered, the white army
was disbanded, and a democracy was created, with a president in charge.

Lenin was not satisfied with a democracy, did not disband the red army and
within a year had a second revolution replacing the president with himself
and the democracy with a communist government.

At no time was there anarchy in Russia.

Russia became the Soviet Union in the early 1920's, with the signing of the
"all union treaty". It remaind a cohesive governement, even when parts of it
were under occupation by the Germans.

There was anarchy in parts of what was the Soviet Union, after it fell
apart in the early 1990s, but AFAIK, the Russian government existed and
at some level was active the entire time. 

It all depends upon where you draw the line between anarchy and a barely
functioning central government. 

Geoff.

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