Makhnovshchina
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The Makhnovshchina was a mass movement to establish anarchist communism during the Ukrainian War of Independence of 1917–1921. Named after Nestor Makhno, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary In
The Union of Poor Peasants, an anarchist-communist peasant group based in Huliaipole, to which Nestor Makhno (seated, front row, far left) was a member
Soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Army near Odesa, during the occupation of Ukraine by the Central Powers.
The burial of insurgents killed in battle with the Austro-Hungarian Army.
Makhno and his lieutenants, 1919
Nestor Makhno
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Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence.
Makhnovshchina
…romanized: Makhnovshchyna, IPA: ) was a mass movement to establish anarchist communism during the Ukrainian War of Independence of 1917–1921. Named after Nestor Makhno, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, its aim was to create a system of free soviets that would manage the transition…
Makhno in 1921
Butyrka prison, in Moscow, where Makhno was imprisoned from 1911 to 1917 (pictured in 2010)
Makhno wearing his Red Army uniform (1919)