List of Maps

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

The Deep Roots of Rural Discontent: Guliaipole, 1905–17

The Turning Point: Organising Resistance to the German Invasion, 1918

Brigade Commander and Partisan: Makhno’s Campaigns against Denikin, January–May 1919

Betrayal in the Heat of Battle? The Red–Black Alliance Falls Apart, May–September 1919

The Long March West and the Battle at Peregonovka

Red versus White, Red versus Green: The Bolsheviks Assert Control

The Last Act: Alliance at Starobel’sk, Wrangel’s Defeat, and Betrayal at Perekop

The Bitter Politics of the Long Exile: Romania, Poland, Germany, and France, 1921–34

Why Anarchism? Why Ukraine? Contextualising Makhnovshchina

Epilogue: The Reframing of Makhno for the Twenty-First Century

Notes

Index

About the Author

Colin Darch is a fellow of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, and an honorary researcher at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of the Historical Dictionary of Mozambique (London: Rowman and Littefield, 2018) and co-author of both Freedom of Information in the Developing World (Oxford: Chandos, 2010), and Samora Machel: Retórica Política e Independencia em Moçambique (Salvador, Brazil: EDUFBA, 2018).

Reviews

'Utilising numerous sources, some only recently available, Colin Darch produces an admirably lucid account of complex events, supported by penetrating analysis'
*Gary Littlejohn, author of 'A Sociology of the Soviet Union' (1984)*

'A timely and welcome contribution. Detailed and balanced, Darch's narrative succumbs to neither a romanticisation nor demonisation of Makhno. Readers will encounter a multifaceted Makhno attempting to navigate his movement through the furies of revolution and civil war'
*Sean Patterson, author of 'Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine’s Civil War, 1917-1921'*

'Before Rojava, before Spain, there was Ukraine. Darch's brilliant study recovers the intertwined stories of the anarchist Nestor Makhno, factory worker and son of freed serfs, and the revolution that swept Ukraine. This highly recommended study of an epic time shows another revolution was possible’
*Lucien van der Walt, Professor of Economic & Industrial Sociology, Rhodes University*

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