Author : Colin Darch
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Anarchists
ISBN : 9780745338873
Reveals a little-known history of 1917: the Ukrainian anarch-communist Makhnovists
Author : Alexandre Skirda
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781902593685
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 : Michael Malet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 1982-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1349044695
Author : Nestor Ivanovich Makhno
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Anarchists
ISBN : 9781926878058
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 :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004188487
Before communism, anarchism and syndicalism were central to labour and the Left in the colonial and postcolonial world.Using studies from Africa,Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, this groundbreaking volume examines the revolutionary libertarian Left's class politics and anti-colonialism in the first globalization and imperialism(1870/1930).
Author : Petr Arshinov
Publisher : Freedom Press (CA)
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :
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 : Michael Palij
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 1976
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Guerin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0853451753
"One of the ablest leaders and writers of the French New Left describes the two realms of "anarchism"--Its intellectual substance, and its actual practice through the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the Italian Factory Councils, and finally its role in workers' self-management in modern Yugoslavia and Algeria. One sees in "anarchism" a close kinship to libertarianism of the right, with its horror of state bureaucracy and hostility toward bourgeois (liberal) democracy. Noam Chomsky, perhaps Guerin's American political counterpart, has written a concise and effective introduction which will add to the book's campus appeal. An important contemporary definition of New Left aims and their possible directions in the future." -- from back cover
Author : Nestor Ivanovich Makhno
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
Forced to flee by the Bolsheviks, he eventually ended up in exile in Paris. Marginalized and impoverished, in poor health as a result of wounds sustained in fighting against the Whites and the Bolsheviks, and time spent in prisons inside tsarist Russia before the Revolution and in Eastern European prisons en route to exile afterwards, Nestor Makhno wrote occasional essays in self-vindication and in vindication of the peasant insurgent movement that bore his name.
Author : Vyacheslav Azarov
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
The Makhnovist movement was an attempt by peasants in southeastern Ukraine to create an anarchist society in 1917–1921. This unique social experiment embraced a substantial territory with a population of millions but has been little studied by historians. In the years of revolution and civil war, the movement was protected from its numerous enemies by a remarkable military force—the Insurgent Army—and by an intelligence service—the Kontrrazvedka. It is the latter institution which is the subject of this study by Vyacheslav Azarov, a present-day Ukrainian anarchist.
