Vadim V DamierVADIM DAMIER, Russian historian and anarchist, was born in 1959. In 1981, he graduated from the Moscow State Institute for History and Archives. In 1985 he defended a dissertation on the Green Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany for the candiate degree. In 2006 he defended a doctoral dissertation

on "The International Syndicalist Movement and the Creation of the Berlin International of Trade Unions (1918-1923)" for the degree of doctor of historical sciences. He is currently a Senior Researcher in the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Since the 1980s he has been active in various anarchist and green movements and is a longtime member of the Confederation of Revolutionary Anarcho-Syndicalists (CRAS-IWA), the Russian affiliate of the International Workers' Association. He is the author of The Forgotten International: The International Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement Between the Two World Wars (2007), Anarcho-Syndicalism in the 20th Century (2009), and The Age of Steel: a Social History of Soviet Society 1917-1991 (2014). Read More Read Less