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History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918-1921)

Peter Arshinov · Gruppa russkikh anarkhistov v Germanii (Berlin); English translation Black & Red, Detroit · 1923

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Type: Book
Author: Peter Arshinov
Accessed: 2026-09-01
Reliability notes: Participant's account written from an anarchist standpoint; used for the movement's declared aims.

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EstablishedThe movement's declared model was a network of free soviets as organs of local self-management, regional congresses of peasants, workers and insurgents, and voluntary ‘free’ communes; a participant records that constant war prevented this from being fully realised.DisputedInterpretations differ on what the Makhnovshchina was: an anarchist social revolution, a peasant insurgency within the Ukrainian revolution, or, in hostile accounts, banditry; sources on all sides are partisan.