Makhno

It was a “three-cornered struggle” with Russian revolutionaries against counterrevolutionaries and national minorities resisting both.20 And this shorthand leaves out a fourth corner, that of the Black Army led by the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno.21 This stew of hostilities is typical of civil wars.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

It was a “three-cornered struggle” with Russian revolutionaries against counterrevolutionaries and national minorities resisting both.20 And this shorthand leaves out a fourth corner, that of the Black Army led by the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno.21 This stew of hostilities is typical of civil wars.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

I've always been fascinated by the repellent but heroic Makhno and his quixotic quest.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005

Having gained considerable support in the south because of his slogans of freedom and free Soviets, Grigoriev proposed to Makhno that they join forces against the Communist regime.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

Meanwhile, Denikin kept pressing Makhno, finally forcing him to withdraw from his position.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

I have been told by Zorin and other Communists that Makhno was a Jew-baiter and that his povstantsi were responsible for numerous brutal pogroms.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

Makhno, my informants explained, was himself an Anarchist seeking to free Ukraina from all oppression and striving to develop and organize the peasants 'latent anarchistic tendencies.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

But the differences between Makhno and the Bolsheviki were deeprooted: he strove to establish free peasant communes in the Ukraina, while the Communists were bent on imposing the Moscow rule.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

Makhno, who managed to escape the Bolshevik net, was again declared an outlaw and bandit.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

The Red Army seemed powerless to check the advance of Denikin, but meanwhile Makhno had gathered new forces and attacked Denikin in the rear.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923