The Importance of Kronstadt Today - Cork meeting

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday April 02, 2003 11:46 by Andrew

Sergei 'Nestor' Maximoff, grandson of the executed Kronstadt sailor, Mikhail Maximoff (author of the manifesto "What the Kronstadt Sailors and Workers Stand For") will be speaking in Cork, Wednesday Night coming, April 2nd, at 8.30 pm (note late start) at Franciscan Well Brewery, North Mall (Upstairs)

Brief history of speaker:

1921 Kronstadt Rebellion
1942 Sergei Born in Leningrad during the Nazi Siege
1981 Publishes 'People Power': anti Communist Party "zine" highly influential in Leningrad (now St Petersburg!) in 80s. Publishes polemic against Sakharaov.
1989 - founder member of the Democratic Anarchist Workers Union. Involved in city wide strike.
1997-99: Jailed for sedition and 'un-Russian' activities. Writes Article 'The Gulag Is Still With Us'
2002 Publishes 'The Importance of Kronstadt Today'