Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
19 September 2020
Summary
Histories of the Russian Revolution often present the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 as the central event, neglecting the diverse struggles of urban and rural revolutionaries across the heartlands of the Russian Empire. This book takes as its subject one such struggle, the anarcho-communist peasant revolt led by Nestor Makhno in left-bank Ukraine, locating it in the context of the final collapse of the Empire that began in 1914.
Between 1917 and 1921, the Makhnovists fought German…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745338873 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0745338879 |
| Author: | Colin Darch |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 324g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 150mm |
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Critics Review
‘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 UniversityAbout The Author
Colin Darch
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).
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