[2][5] The name Burevestnik was inspired by Maxim Gorky's poem "The Song of the Stormy Petrel" (Песня о Буревестнике).
[4] The publication included lengthy debates on the use of terrorism as well as information on the activities of the anarchist movement in Russia.
[6] Burevestnik generally adhered to the political line from the Kropotkinite Bread and Freedom group, although anti-syndicalist viewpoints were also expressed in some of its articles (through the participation of Abram Grossman).
He vehemently accused the Kropotkinists of conflating syndicalism and anarchism, stating that they had been led astray by the French labour movement.
[7] Articles from the Burevestnik Paris groups were often reproduced in the New York-based publication Golos Truda, which Rayevsky edited when he moved to the US.