Voline finished the book in 1940 while in Marseilles.

Following 1968 events in France, the book was republished in French paperback without additional editorial content by Pierre Belfond [fr] as part of a series by Daniel Guérin and Jean-Jacques Lebel.

[2][4] The first volume, Nineteen-Seventeen: The Russian Revolution Betrayed, in 1954,[2] and the second volume, The Unknown Revolution: Kronstadt 1921, Ukraine 1918–21, in 1956.

[4] Historian of anarchism Paul Avrich wrote that Voline's book was "the most important anarchist history of the Russian Revolution in any language".

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