A letter by Peter Arshinov to the Ukrainian-American newspaper « Volia Ukrainy » [Free Ukraine] , requesting assistance for Nestor Makhno who faced trial in Poland for allegedly attempting to provoke a rebellion in Eastern Galicia. After a highly publicized trial in November 1923, Makhno and his wife Halyna Kuzmenko were acquited on all charges. Volia Ukrainy,… Lire la suite 1923 : Makhno in Poland facing trial
Edited by Alexander Berkman – Labor Papers: Please reprint BULLETIN OF THE RELIEF FUND of the International Working Men’s Association for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia No. 3 PARIS – BERLIN June, 1927 ========= Download the full Bulletin in PDF : click here THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION It is… Lire la suite Bulletin of the relief fund of the International Working Men’s Association for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned of Exiled in Russia, n°3, June 1927, Paris – Berlin
Front cover of « Dibrovskiy Ataman – the ‘Nasty Weather’ of Batko Shchus, » a biography of Feodosiy Shchus, one of Nestor Makhno’s closest associates. The author, Victor Belov-Shchus, is a member of Feodosiy Shchus’s family. The village of Dibrivka, Feodosiy Shchus’s home base, is 40 km northeast of Hulyaipole. « Nasty Weather » is a poem by Feodosiy… Lire la suite Feodosiy Shchus
Petlioura’s AssassinationMay Picqueray Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkmann sent me a telegramm. They were arriving in Paris to stay a while and they strongly wished to meet me there. At their demand, I book a room for Emma, on the Sorbonne square, and for Alexander (who we all call Sacha), rue Royer-Collard near the Luxemburg.… Lire la suite Petlioura’s Assassination, May Picqueray
Paris, March 14th, 1967Dear Sir,I have received, over a month ago now, your letter, and I wished I could have answered it sooner. A stupid incident, a fall, a broken kneecap, and annoying care are the causes of this delay. You will find attached an excerpt of Nestor Makhno’s life. Pardon me if I let… Lire la suite The Makhnovist Movement, by May Picqueray
If the life of Makhno is relatively well known and documented on his pre- and revolutionary period, we finally know very little about the part of his exile, in Romania and Poland and then in Paris where he ended his days in 1934. An article from the historical service of the Ukrainian secret services (yes,… Lire la suite WHEN LENIN, TROTSKY AND THE GUEPEOU WERE HUNTING FOR UKRAINIAN ANARCHISTS IN EXILE
Source Russian peasants demonstrating in Moscow 1917 In these excerpts from Ida Mett’s book The Russian Peasants in the Revolution, Mett provides some of the background regarding the Russian peasantry on the eve and at the beginning of the 1917 Russian Revolution. There was a burgeoning peasant cooperative movement, and a large contingent of Russian… Lire la suite Ida Mett: Peasants in the Russian Revolution
The return of Makhno's ghost 