Anarchism in Ukraine has its roots in the democratic and egalitarian organization of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, who inhabited the region up until the 18th century. Philosophical anarchism first emerged
Commanders of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, including Semen Karetnyk (3rd from the left), Nestor Makhno (center), and Fedir Shchus (1st from the right)
Zaporozhian Cossacks fighting Tatars of the Crimean Khanate.
Mykhailo Drahomanov, the first Ukrainian philosophical anarchist and one of the leading figures of the democratic federalist movement.
Members of the Union of Poor Peasants, including Nestor Makhno (bottom-left).
The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, also known as Makhnovtsi, named after their founder Nestor Makhno, was an anarchist army formed largely of Ukrainian peasants and workers during the Russia
A tachanka used by soldiers of the Insurgent Army, on display in a museum in Huliaipole.
French soldiers, mixed with civilians and White Army soldiers, during the Allied intervention in 1919.
Commanders of the Don Army.
The 6th Ukrainian Soviet Division [ru] of ataman Nykyfor Hryhoriv, during their entry into Odesa, in April 1919.