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.