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Nestor Makhno--Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921

By Alexandre Skirda

Book information

Publisher
AK Press
Year
2003
ISBN
1902593685, 9781902593685
Open Library ID
OL3699019M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
259 MB (272092432 bytes)
Pages
217\217
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The phenomenal life of Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno (1888–1934) provides the framework for this breakneck account of the downfall of the tsarist empire and the civil war that convulsed and bloodied Russia between 1917 and 1921. As in many of historys chivalric tales, clashes were fought through lightning cavalry charges and bitter hand-to-hand, saber-wielding combat. The combatants were drawn from several camps: Budyennys Red cavalry, the Don Cossacks and Kuban Cossacks (allied with the Whites), Ukrainian nationalists, and Makhnovist partisans. Makhno, a formidable and daring strategist, headed an army of anarchist insurgents—a popular peasant movement which bore his name.

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