Maksimov (known to western readers as G.P. Maximoff) was Secretary of Russia’s Anarcho-Syndicalist Confederation and editor of `Golos Trudo’ (The Voice of Labor). He experienced first hand the Bolshevik repression that crushed other revolutionaries and subordinated popular revolt to party dictatorship. This is his story of the 1921 hunger strike in which some of the leading lights of Russian anarchism staked their lives in a desperate attempt to expose Bolshevik repression – and win their freedom.