Alexandre Skirda

French anarchist and translator (1942–2020)

Alexandre Skirda (1942 – December 23, 2020) was a French anarchist. His mother was Ukrainian and his father was Russian. He was a historian and a translator, specializing in the Russian anarchist revolutionary movement. His writing is in French.^[1]

Works

Books in French

Alexandre Skirda, Kronstadt 1921: prolétariat contre bolchévisme, Tête de feuille, Paris, 1971, 271 p. (ISBN 2-84621-002-0)
Alexandre Skirda, Les Anarchistes dans la Révolution russe, Tête de feuilles, Paris, 1973, 186 p.
Alexandre Skirda, Autonomie individuelle et force collective: les anarchistes et l’organisation de Proudhon à nos jours, Publico, Skirda, Spartacus, 1987, 365 p. (ISBN 2-9502130-0-6)
Alexandre Skirda, Nestor Makhno: le cosaque libertaire, 1888–1934 ; La Guerre civile en Ukraine, 1917–1921, Éd. de Paris, Paris, 1999, 491 p. (ISBN 2-905291-87-7)
Alexandre Skirda, Les Anarchistes russes, les soviets et la révolution de 1917, Éd. de Paris, Paris, 2000, 348 p. (ISBN 2-84621-002-0)

Translations in English

Nestor Makhno (author), Alexandre Skirda (editor), (translation by Paul Sharkey), The Struggle Against The State And Other Essays, AK Press, 1 January 1996, 114 p. (ISBN 9781873176788)^[2]
Alexandre Skirda (translation by Paul Sharkey), Facing the enemy: a history of anarchist organization from Proudhon to May 1968, AK Press, 1 January 2002, 292 p. (ISBN 9781902593197)
Alexandre Skirda (translation by Paul Sharkey), Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine, AK Press, 2004, 415 p. (ISBN 9781902593685)

References

^ Alexandre Skirda (translation by Paul Sharkey), Nestor Makhno : Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine back cover, AK Press, 2004 (ISBN 9781902593685)
^ Nestor Makhno, Alexandre Skirda (1 January 1996). "The Struggle Against The State And Other Essays". AK Press. Retrieved 18 October 2019.