The Russian Revolution in Ukraine (March 1917 — April 1918)

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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 1928-1929.

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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).

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Makhno Vol. 1 8.5x5.5.pdf (1.21 MB)

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