Makhnovists

Makhnovists "beyond the rapids": The Zaporozhian Cossack influence

Submitted by SeanP on May 29 2012 04:36

Sean Patterson on the relationship between the Russian revolution-era anarchist movement the Makhnovists and the Zaporozhian Cossacks.

Kontrrazvedka: The story of the Makhnovist intelligence service - Vyacheslav Azarov

Submitted by flaneur on Jan 20 2012 12:58

Study of the Makhnovists' intelligence service during the Russian civil war, the Kontrrazvedka.

Nestor Makhno in the Russian civil war - Michael Malet

Submitted by flaneur on Jan 17 2012 18:29

Early 1980s British perspective about Makhno and the Makhnovists, this is a sympathetic examination of their tactics and activity.

Civil War in Russia - David Footman

British historian's account of the Russian civil war and the Makhnovists.

Video footage of Nestor Makhno, 1919

Newsreel footage from 1919 of Nestor Makhno and his troops.

Makhno: the impressions of a French journalist - Stéphane Roger

Submitted by Karetelnik on Jun 24 2011 03:54

Among the many enemies facing the Ukrainian anarchists in the Russian Civil War were the French armed forces sent to bolster the counter-revolution in Ukraine. A deserter from these forces describes his encounter with Nestor Makhno and his troops.

Over the fresh grave of comrade N. Rogdaev - Nestor Makhno

Nestor Makhno's eulogy for the anarcho-communist revolutionary Nicolai Rogdaev is also a lament for the fate of Russian anarchism.

The Makhnovists and the Mennonites: war and peace in the Ukrainian Revolution

Submitted by Wayne on May 25 2011 12:38

A Mennonite Selbstschutz unit photographed in the Ukraine, 1918

This is a story about massacres that occurred in Southern Ukraine between 26th October and 7th December, 1919. The victims, avowedly-pacifist German Mennonites, included several women and elderly people; in Eichenfeld, almost one third of the village population was killed, including a 65 year-old blind woman. All the massacres occurred in the vicinity of the Makhnovist army. And then, after six weeks, they stopped.