A forebear : Max Stirner (1806-1856) -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) -- Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) -- Direct action and libertarian construction foreshadowed -- James Guillaume (1844-1916) -- Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) -- Kropotkin in the Russian Revolution -- Errico Malatesta (1853-1932) -- Emile Henry (1872-1894) -- The French anarchists in the trade unions -- The Spanish collectives -- Voline (1882-1945) -- Nestor Makhno (1889-1935) -- Kronstadt (1921) -- Anarchists behind bars (1921) -- Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War -- Durruti and libertarian warfare -- Anarcho-syndicalism in government.