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Ukrainian, Anarchist Revolutionary, Abolisher of Concentration Camps, and the Commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Civil War
: A Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Civil War. Makhno was the namesake of the Makhnovshchina (loosely translated as "Makhno movement"), a predominantly peasant phenomenon that grew into a mass social movement. It was initially centered around Makhno's hometown Huliaipole but over the course of the Ukrainian Civil War came to exert a strong influence over large areas of southern Ukraine. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #7 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Anarchism and Bottom-Up Organization
“To the peasants, the power of local soviets meant the conversion of those bodies into autonomous territorial units, on the basis of the revolutionary association and the construction of a new society. Placing that sort of construction upon that slogan, the peasants applied it literally, expanded upon it and defended it...”
Source: "The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays," by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda, published by AK Press, 1996, page 1. "Great October in the Ukraine," Dyelo Truda, No. 44-45, January/February, 1928, pp. 3-7.
"The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays," by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda, published by AK Press, 1996, page 1. "Great October in the Ukraine," Dyelo Truda, No. 44-45, January/February, 1928, pp. 3-7.
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