Russian Revolution 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

All-Russian assembly of workers' councils, Petrograd 1917

The Makhno Movement and Opposition within the Party

An article from the 1960's journal Obsolete Communism, the Left-Wing Alternative, about the history of the Makhnovist movement and the attention it had received at the time.

Makno's daughter Elena & wife Galina

An unsolved mystery: the "diary of Makhno's wife" - V.N. Litvinov

V.N. Litvinov analyses and disputes the alleged diary of Makhno's wife and its allegations about the…

Fyodor Schuss, center-right, poses with other Makhnovists

The Makhnos of memory: Mennonite and Makhnovist narratives of the civil war in Ukraine (1917-1921) - Sean David Patterson

A really interesting Masters thesis on the relationship between Mennonites and…

From mass strike to new society - Jeremy Brecher

Excellent text by Jeremy Brecher examining where mass strikes have progressed into the working class attempting to run society in its own…

Pause! Read! Consider! Insurgent Makhnovists

Two versions of another appeal to the Red Army to mutiny.

Comrades in the Red Army! Insurgent Makhnovists

Another appeal to the Red Army rank and file.

A word from the Makhnovists to the labouring cossacks of the Don and the Kuban

An appeal to the bands of Cossacks to rise up against the Bolsheviks.

To the young people: Insurgent Makhnovists

An appeal to the youth.

Summons to the 4th Extraordinary Congress of Peasant, Worker and Partisan Delegates

To all workers of the plough and the hammer! (Makhnovists)

An appeal to the Workers and peasants of Ukraine concerning the advance of Polish and White Guard forces.

Down with fratricide! Insurgent Makhnovists

Another appeal to the Red Army from the Makhnovists.

Comrades in the Red Army, on the front line and in the home guard!

An appeal to the rank and file of the Red Army to reject their officers and the Bolsheviks.