Le Monde.fr: Nestor Makhno, the anarchist of the Ukrainian countryside
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Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence. He established the Makhnovshchina, a mass movement by the Ukrainian peasantry to establish anarchist communism in the country between 1918 and 1921. Initially centered around Makhno's home province o…
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culture · Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888–1934) · revolutionary · writer · painter · military personnel · anarchist · farmer · politician · also Nestor Makhno, Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, Bat'ko Makhno, Makhno
Born 7 November 1888 · Died 6 July 1934 · Q47900
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Le Monde.fr: Nestor Makhno, the anarchist of the Ukrainian countryside
The legacy of Nestor Makhno and the Makhnovshchina was again taken up by Ukrainian anti-authoritarians that joined the Territorial Defense Forces (TDF)
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Libcom: Nestor Makhno. The Last Years of Living Abroad - FISU
Libcom: Nestor Makhno: A Theoretician of Anarcho-Syndicalism?
Moviefone: Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno (2007) - Where to Watch
A Russian biographical miniseries —The Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno—was produced
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Valeri Zolotukhin played Makhno in the drama film Hail, Mary
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Died 1934-07-06.
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“¡Arresta a todos los gobernantes por el tiempo necesario, desgarra y quema sus leyes!¡Destruye las prisiones, aniquila la burocracia, suprime todo poder de Estado!.”
“amongst a foreign people and political enemies whom I have so often declaimed against”
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In his Berlin-based newspaper Anarkhicheskii vestnik (Russian: Анархический вестник; English: Anarchist Messenger)
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Until a White Army offensive forced a short-lived Bolshevik–Makhnovist alliance that drove the Whites out of Crimea and ended the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
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Career landmark: president (1919–1919).
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Career landmark: ataman (1918–1921).
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After his return home in 1917, the two met and married, living together on a commune where Makhno contributed.
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The two met and married, living together on a commune where Makhno contributed
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Observed a farm manager and the landlord's sons physically beating a young farmhand
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Born 1888-11-07.
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