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Nestor Makhno

1888–1934 · 20th century

Nestor Makhno was a Ukrainian anarchist from Huliaipole who during the Russian Civil War led the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. His forces fought the Austro-German occupiers, the Ukrainian nationalists and the Whites, sometimes in alliance with the Red Army, and defended a stateless zone run by peasant councils. The Bolsheviks crushed his movement in 1921, and he died in exile in Paris.

Nestor Makhno
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Nestor Makhno. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/nestor-makhno
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