Apollon Karelin

Apollon Andreevich Karelin (Russian: Аполло́н Андре́евич Каре́лин; January 23, 1863, St. Petersburg - March 20, 1926, Moscow) was a Russian anarchist.

Apollon Karelin
Born(1863-01-23)January 23, 1863
St. Petersburg
DiedMarch 20, 1926(1926-03-20) (aged 63)
Moscow
NationalityRussian
OccupationWriter, activist

Born into a wealthy family, Karelin became radicalized in his youth and trained as a lawyer. Passing through a series of radical political affiliations, he was subjected to political persecution, leading him to flee into exile in Paris from 1905 to 1917. There, Karelin founded a group of expatriate Russian anarchists, the Brotherhood of Free Communists (Bratstvo Vol’nykh Obshchinnikov), which numbered Volin among its members.[1][2] The Brotherhood split acrimoniously in 1913 over questions of leadership, accusations of antisemitism, and rumors of infiltration by the Okhrana.[3][4]

After the Russian Revolution, Karelin returned to Moscow. There, in 1918, he founded the All-Russian Federation of Anarchists,[5] and he became editor of its press organ, Vol'naia Zhizn (Free Life), published in Moscow from 1919 to 1921.[6] Controversially, Karelin urged anarchists to cooperate with the Bolshevik government, gaining a seat on the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.[7]

Karelin died of a cerebral hemhorrage in 1926.[8]

Bibliography
  • Novoe kratkoe izlozhenie politicheskoi ekonomii. New York: Izd. Soiuza russkikh rabochikh, 1918.
  • Obshchestvennoe vladenie v Rossii. St. Petersburg: Izd. A.S. Suvorin, 1893.
  • Kratkoye izlozheniye politicheskoy ekonomii. St. Peterburg: L.F. Panteli e ev, 1894.
  • Zemel’naia programma anarkhistov-kommunistov. London: Khleb i volia, 1912.
  • Gosudarstvo i anarkhisty. Moscow: Buntar, 1918.
  • Zlyye rosskazni pro yevreyev. Moscow: Vserossiyskiy tsentr. ispolnitel'nyy komitet sovetov r.,s.,k. i k. deputatov, 1919.
  • Chto takoe anarkhiia? Moscow: Izdanie Vseros. Federacii Anarch.-Kommunist., 1923.
  • Smertnaia kazn'. Detroit: Izd. Professoinalʹnogo soiuza, 1923.
  • Rossiia v 1930 godu. Moscow: Vserossiiskaia federatsiia anarkhistov, 1921.
  • Tak govoril Bakunin. Buenos Aires: Golos Truda, 1921.
  • Gorodskie rabochie, krest'ianstvo, vlast' i sobstvennost'. Buenos Aires: Izd. Rabochei Izdavatelʹskoi Gruppy v Argentine, 1924.
  • Vol'naia zhizn'. Detroit: Profsoiuz, 1955.

Under the pseudonym "A. Kochegarov":

  • Polozhitel’nye i otritsatel’nye storony demokratii s tochki zreniia anarkhistov-kommunistov. Geneva: Izd. Bratstva Volʹnych Obščinnikov, 1912.
  • K voprosu o kommunizme. Bridgeport, Conn.: n.p., 1918.

References
  1. Avrich, Paul (2005). The Russian Anarchists. Edinburgh: AK Press. pp. 174–175, 137.
  2. Szarapow (translator) (2009). "Life of the Anarchist 'Jesuit' (Apollon Karelin) [Review]". Kate Sharpley Library. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
  3. Avrich, Paul (2005). The Russian Anarchists. Edinburgh: AK Press. pp. 113, 115.
  4. Gooderham, P. (1981). The Anarchist Movement In Russia, 1905-1917 (PDF). University of Bristol. pp. 214–216, 220–221.
  5. Avrich, Paul (2005). The Russian Anarchists. Edinburgh: AK Press. p. 257.
  6. Heller, Leonid (1996). "Voyage au pays de l'anarchie. Un itinéraire: L'utopie" [Journey to the Land of Anarchy: An Itinerary: Utopia]. Cahiers du Monde russe. 37: 255 – via Persée.
  7. Avrich, Paul (2005). The Russian Anarchists. Edinburgh: AK Press. p. 201.
  8. Avrich, Paul (2005). The Russian Anarchists. Edinburgh: AK Press. p. 236.
  9. Nalimov, V. V. (2001). "On the History of Mystical Anarchism in Russia". International Journal of Transpersonal Studies. 20: 85–98.
  10. Karelin, Appollon A. (1921). Rossiia V 1930 Godu. Moskva: Vserossiiskaia federatsiia anarkhistov.
  11. "Russkiye anarkhicheskiye utopii 1920-kh" [Russian Anarchist Utopias of the 1920s]. Blog Tolkovatelya. September 10, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
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