IN THIS ISSUE OF "OBSCHINA"
After a two-year break, the.oldest
(of the modern) anarchist magazines In Russia has been revived. Though less
optimistic than at the beginning of perestroika, we still look forward to
seeing the coming death of the state, of domination ana oppression, and we
offer you our ideas on various topics. We encourage your participation.
Pages 4-5. "We Played
Fairly" offers some reminiscences and thoughts about last year's August
coup and this year's observation of its anniversary written by Igor
Podshlvalov, an activist from an anarcho-syndicalist group in Siberia. People
from the anarchist "barricade No.6" were really honest in their
opposition to the putchists, but like many people in today's Russia they feel
that they were decieved.
PP.6-7. "General Retreat - A
Strategy tor the Movement" is a thorough and grim analysis of the
independent social (informal, as It was called) movement in the former USSR,
the changes in the system of domination, "leftist" and
"reformist" mentality and the probable ways out of this hard
situation written by Piotr Ryabov.
PP.8-9. "It's A Long Road to
Anarchy" is more optimistic, but is still a rather critical approach to
the informal movement. The author, Alexander Shubin, considers the fruits of
our activities, that have been going on for more than six years, not completely
rotten and outlines a strategy which he terms "accupuncture" for
change in society.
PP.10-11. "The Dirty War In
Trans-Dniester Area" gives an outline on the history of the conflict there
and the genesis of a new Moldavian nationalist regime by one of its bitter
opponents, Igor Hergenreoder, an anarchist, whose family has become the victim
of right-wing and state repressions in Moldavia.
PP.12-13. "Fascism On The
Rise" consists of letters from Lithuania, Siberia and Moldavia, revealing
the authoritarian nature of the "democratic regimes" there and the
rise of ultra right-wing movements.
PP.14-15. Something we are not
afraid or ashamed to publish: a declaration written by the predecessor of KAS
in 1988. Our ideas are baslcly the same and the urgency of their Importance is
undoubted. You can easily compare our Ideas of yesterday to those we have
today. A statement concerning the political situation in Russia which was
adopted at the last Congress of KAS Is published on p.15.
PP. 18-17. "Ecology Is
Anarchism". Some thought-provocation for the general public by Artyom
Grustny, an anarchist and an activist In the green movement.
PP.18-19. "The Leftist Art of
Dying" by Alexander Tarasov is about the films which the rebels of May 1968
were brought up on.
PP. 20-21. "The Cup and the
Gun". A psychoanalytical approach to the economic experiments of Russian
prime-minister Yegor Gaidar, based on his grandfather's necrophllial-Cheka
legacy.
PP.22-23. In our reviews section we
look at Alexei Borovoi on Bakunln's philosophy, Stalinists on Nestor Makhno and
"An Outline of the History of the Anarchist Movement" by Max Nettlau.