Description
Book SynopsisReveals a little-known history of 1917: the Ukrainian anarcho-communist Makhnovists
Trade Review'Utilising numerous sources, some only recently available, Colin Darch produces an admirably lucid account of complex events, supported by penetrating analysis'
-- Gary Littlejohn, author of 'A Sociology of the Soviet Union' (1984)
'A timely and welcome contribution. Detailed and balanced, Darch's narrative succumbs to neither a romanticisation nor demonisation of Makhno. Readers will encounter a multifaceted Makhno attempting to navigate his movement through the furies of revolution and civil war'
-- Sean Patterson, author of 'Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil War, 1917-1921'
'Before Rojava, before Spain, there was Ukraine. Darch's brilliant study recovers the intertwined stories of the anarchist Nestor Makhno, factory worker and son of freed serfs, and the revolution that swept Ukraine. This highly recommended study of an epic time shows another revolution was possible’
-- Lucien van der Walt, Professor of Economic & Industrial Sociology, Rhodes University
Table of ContentsList of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
- The Deep Roots of Rural Discontent: Guliaipole, 1905–17
- The Turning Point: Organising Resistance to the German Invasion, 1918
- Brigade Commander and Partisan: Makhno’s Campaigns against Denikin, January–May 1919
- Betrayal in the Heat of Battle? The Red–Black Alliance Falls Apart, May–September 1919
- The Long March West and the Battle at Peregonovka
- Red versus White, Red versus Green: The Bolsheviks Assert Control
- The Last Act: Alliance at Starobel’sk, Wrangel’s Defeat, and Betrayal at Perekop
- The Bitter Politics of the Long Exile: Romania, Poland, Germany, and France, 1921–34
- Why Anarchism? Why Ukraine? Contextualising Makhnovshchina
- Epilogue: The Reframing of Makhno for the Twenty-First Century
Notes
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