Voline (Во́лин)

Russian anarchist, Makhnovist revolutionary and historian. Died aged 63 of tuberculosis in a Parisian hospital. Trotsky had ordered his execution in 1921, but a hunger strike by the anarchists in prison publicly embarrassed the Bolsheviks and embroiled them in scandal, and Voline was among those released on condition they leave the country. It was the first time political prisoners were deported from the vaunted Red Fatherland of the Proletariat.