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Title: Makhnovshchina I Ee Vcherashnie Soiuzniki - Bol'Sheviki (Otvet Na Knigu M. Kubanina "Makhnovshchina")
Description: Paris: Biblioteki Makhnovtsev, 1928. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/4 x 7; pp. 62; brown wraps printed in black; loss of paper to spine; edges of wraps brittle with nicks and chips; back cover unevenly trimmed; internally clean but for a light age-toning to pages; good or better condition. Nestor Ivanovich Makhno - Ukrainian anarchist and Commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (also called 'The Black Army') wrote his current book in response to Soviet scholar M. Kubanin's anti-Makhno work "Makhnovshchina." Nestor Makhno, the son of peasants, was born in 1889 in Huliaipole, Ukraine. Shortly after joining a local anarchist group in 1906 he was arrested, released, re-arrested, and eventually sentenced to death - later reprieved because of his youth and instead imprisoned in the scariest penal institution in Moscow, Butyrki Prison. He was released after the Revolution in 1917 and returned to his native village. By the Winter of 1918 Makhno had managed to unite various anarchist detachments and peasant guerrilla groups leading against and winning victories over German, Austrian, and Ukrainian nationalist forces as well as units of the White Army. For the next several years his allegiance for and against the Red Army kept shifting but nevertheless, to the end, Makhno and his army refused to hold Bolshevik-supervised elections or accept Bolshevik-appointed political commissars. In 1921 fled the Ukrainian Red forces to Romania, Germany, and eventually Paris where he quickly became close with other exiles, wrote several books, and co-wrote for various emigre journals. He died in 1934 from tuberculosis. Ill.: 0. 3.

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