Author: Alexandre Skirda
Publisher: AK Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9781902593685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The phenomenal life of Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) provides the framework for this breakneck account of the downfall of the tsarist empire and the civil war that convulsed and bloodied Russia between 1917 and 1921. Mahkno and his people were fighting for a society "without masters or slaves, with neither rich nor poor." They acted towards that idea by establishing "free soviets." Unlike the soviets drained of all significance by the dictatorship of a one-party State, the "free soviets" became the grassroots organs of a direct democracy - a living embodiment of the free society - until they were betrayed, and smashed, by the Red Army. Delving into a vast array of documentation to which few other historians have had access, this study illuminates a revolution that started out with the rosiest of prospects but ended up utterly confounded. More than just the incredible exploits of a guerilla revolutionary par excellence, Skirda weaves the tale of a people, and the organizations and practices of anarchism, literally fighting for their lives.
Author: Colin Darch
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745338880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reveals a little-known history of 1917: the Ukrainian anarch-communist Makhnovists
Author: Petr Arshinov
Publisher: Freedom Press (CA)
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It was in prison in 1911 that Peter Arshinov established a close personal and political friendship with Makhno, which continued after their release following the February Revolution in 1917. In 1919 Arshinov became Makhno’s secretary, and remained with the Makhnovists until 1921. In 1922 he settled in Berlin and published the Russian edition of his story. Arshinov’s history of the Makhnovists is undoubtedly the most important source work available. Includes an introduction by Voline, and excellent prefaces by Fredy Perlman (the original translator, and publisher, of the work in English), and Nicolas Walter (to the original Freedom Press edition). It’s about time this was available again!
Author: Nestor Ivanovich Makhno
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781926878058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nestor Makhno (1888 û 1934) was a peasant anarcho-communist who organized an experiment in anarchist values and practice in southeast Ukraine during the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War (1917-1921). The Ukrainian Revolution describes the guerilla war launched by Makhno and his anarchist companions in 1918 against the brutal German-Austrian occupation forces and their puppet State, the Hetmanate. The Makhnovists started off with no money and no weapons. Six months later they controlled 70 raions (counties) in southeast Ukraine and had put together an army which could engage their powerful enemies in a war of fronts, defending the liberated zone. Makhno vividly describes the birth of this revolutionary army, which aimed not just to overthrow the oppressors but to proceed to the solution of the social question along the lines of anarchist principles. This is the first English edition of the third volume of Makhno's memoirs. Book jacket.
Author: Colin Darch
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745338873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reveals a little-known history of 1917: the Ukrainian anarch-communist Makhnovists
Author: Nestor Ivanovich Makhno
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780973782714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nestor Makhno (1888a1934) was a peasant anarcho-communist who organized an experiment in anarchist values and practice in southeast Ukraine during the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War (1917a1921). This is the first volume of his memoirs which covers the two Russian revolutions of 1917 and the beginnings of the Civil War from the point of view of a peasant activist in a Ukrainian village. This is the first English translation of this work, originally published in France in 1928a1929."
Author: Michael Malet
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1982-06-18
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1349044695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nestor Ivanovich Makhno
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780973782752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) was a peasant anarcho-communist who organized an experiment in anarchist values and practice in southeast Ukraine during the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War (1917-1921). Under the blows of the counterrevolution is the second volume of his memoirs which describes his odyssey through revolutionary Russia in the spring of 1918. Driven from his Ukrainian village by a German invasion, he wanders through a nation torn by civil war, encounters various remarkable personalities, and survives hair-raising adventures."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Voline
Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd.
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13: 9780919618251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The untold story of the Russian Revolution: its antecedents, its far-reaching changes, its betrayal by Bolshevik terror, and the massive resistance of non-Bolshevik revolutionaries.