The Makhnovshchina was a mass movement to establish anarchist communism in southern and eastern Ukraine 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 towards a stateless and classless society.
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
Anarchist soldiers of the Black Guards marching in formation
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.
The battle for Donbas was a military campaign of the Russian Civil War that lasted from January to May 1919, in which White forces repulsed attacks of the Red Army on the Don Host Oblast and occupied the Donbas region after heavy fighting.
Vladimir May-Mayevsky achieved a series of victories over the Red forces during the fighting for Donbas.
Monument to the defense of Luhansk at the turn of April and May 1919 in Ostraya Mogila [ru].
Innokentiy Kozhevnikov, commander of the 13th Army (in the center, with binoculars), surrounded by the crew of an armored train. To the left of him Lyudmila Mokievskaya-Zubok [ru], the only woman in history in command of an armored train; who died in early March in the battle for Debaltseve.