Tag Archives: Nestor Makhno

A portrait of Nestor Makhno

tradition is not to preserve the ashes but to pass on the flame For our times of war, we share a portrait of the anarchist Nestor Makhno, by Alexander Berkman. Nestor Makhno, The Man Who Saved the Bolsheviki: Personal Recollections … Continue reading

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Mykhailo Drahomanov: Anarchist echoes from Ukraine’s past

Olenin had entered into the life of the Cossack village so fully that his past seemed quite foreign to him. As to the future, especially a future outside the world in which he was now living, it did not interest … Continue reading

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In memoriam: Alexandre Skirda (1942-2020)

The dead live on, and with them, the dreams they carried. Gustav Landauer We share below the announcement and obituary of the death of the anarchist militant and historian, Alexandre Skirda, originally published with Freedom News (30/12/2020). This is followed … Continue reading

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The story of Nestor Makhno through film

From paris-luttes.info … The Makhnovist movement was one of the rare anarchist-communist insurrections in history, if not the only one, capable of holding a territory for a number of years (from 1917 to 1921).  The film that follows returns to the … Continue reading

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The russian february revolution of 1917: Nestor Makhno

From Robert Graham’s Anarchist Weblog … Nestor Makhno (1888-1934) is one of the best known (or notorious) of the anarchists involved in the 1917 Russian Revolution. He was from Gulyai-Pole (Huliaipole) in southern Ukraine. He became active in the local … Continue reading

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