Makhnovists

Zadov, Lev Nikolaevich aka Zinkovsky aka Leva aka Levka the Bandit 1893-1938

Battlescarred — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:09:39 +0000

Lev Zadov was born on April 11th 1893 in the small Jewish farming settlement of Veselaya in southern Ukraine. Around 1898-1900 his family fell on hard times and moved to Yuzovka, in the Donetsk region, where his father worked as a coachman.

Belash, Viktor Fedorovich aka Bilash 1893-1938

Battlescarred — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:37:16 +0000

Viktor Belash was born in 1893 in the village of Novospasovka (Ukrainian form is Novospasivka) in southern Ukraine. Novospasovka was also the home of other anarchists who later participated in the Makhnovist movement like Vassili Kurilenko and Vdovichenko. He received an elementary education and worked as a railway engineer. He was already an anarchist communist in 1908 at the age of fifteen.

Doubinsky, Jacques, 1889-1959

Steven. — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:51:59 +0000

Jacques Doubinsky
Aka Iakov Dubinsky, born 26 March 1889 - Ukraine, died 18 February 1959 - France

Makhno, Nestor, 1889-1934

Ed — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:15:38 +0000

This movement was the manifestation of the Russian Revolution of 1917 in the Ukraine, where it took a libertarian form and where the workers and peasants fought both the counter-revolutionary Tsarist armies and the authoritarian Bolsheviks.

Nestor Ivanovich Makhno
Born Ukraine, 27 October 1889, died France, 25 June 1934

1917-1921: The Ukrainian Makhnovist movement

Ed — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:54:24 +0000

The revolution in the Ukraine was a libertarian revolution, and the workers and peasants fought both Tsarist reaction and Bolshevik domination.

The Strategy and Nature of Bolshevism

libcom — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:39:11 +0000

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Boris Yelensky's memoirs of the Russian Revolution

catch — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:58:43 +0000

I was born February 17th, 1889, in the city of Yekotirenodar (the gift of Catherine the Great), now known as Krasnodar, located in the province of Kuban, in the northern part of southern Russia. I was the fourth child of a middle-class family. My father had a shop that manufactured fur hats for the Cossacks.

Who are the Makhnovists and what are they fighting for?

libcom — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:21:31 +0000

1 The Makhnovists are peasants and workers who rose as early as 1918 against the tyranny of the German-Magyar, Austrian and Hetmanite1 bourgeois power in the Ukraine. The Makhnovists are those toilers who raised the banner of combat against the rule of Denikin and all other forms of oppression, violence and lies, whatever their origin.

To All Peasants and Workers of the Ukraine

libcom — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:19:16 +0000

To be transmitted by telegraph, telephone, or post to all villages, townships, districts, and provinces of the Ukraine. To be read in village assemblies, factories, and workshops.

The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays

libcom — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:19:01 +0000

The anthology deals with both Makhno's experiences during the Russian Revolution and wider questions of organisation etc.