Voline Voline

Voline (Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum, 1882-1945), writer, educator, poet, and anarchist, was an outspoken activist in the Russian Revolution. Exiled by the Tsarist tribunal, then sentenced to death by Trotsky and rescued amid protests, he neve ceased to live up to his chosen nom de guerre based on the Russian word for freedom.