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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
The Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict was a period of political and military conflict between the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Makhnovshchina, for control over southern Ukraine. The Bolshev
Polish troops in Kyiv, during the Polish–Soviet War
Bolshevik anti-kulak propaganda poster
Painting depicting the flight of the bourgeoisie from Novorossiysk in March 1920
Felix Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the Cheka