No Harmless Power : The Life and Times of the Ukrainian Anarchist Nestor Makhno / Charlie Allison, N.O. Bonzo, and Kevin Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allison, Charlie, author.

Bonzo, N. O., author.

Matthews, Kevin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchists.

Ukraine--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.

Ukraine.

Makhno, Nestor Ivanovich, 1889-1934.

Makhno, Nestor Ivanovich.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2023]

Summary:

Follows the life of Nestor Makhno, who organized a seven-million-strong anarchist polity during the Russian Civil War and developed Platformist anarchism during his exile in Paris as well as advising other anarchists like Durruti on tactics and propaganda. Both timely and timeless, this biography reveals Makhno's rapidly changing world and his place in it. He moved swiftly from peasant youth to prisoner to revolutionary anarchist leader, narrowly escaping Bolshevik Ukraine for Paris. This book also chronicles the friends and enemies he made along the way: Lenin, Trotsky, Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Ida Mett, and others. This volume delves into Makhno's sympathy for the downtrodden, the trap of personal heroism, his improbable victories, unlikely friendships, and his alarming lack of gun safety in meetings. Makhno and the movement he began are seldom mentioned in most mainstream histories--Western or Russian--mostly on the grounds that acknowledging anarchist polities calls into question the inevitability and desirability of the nation-state and unjust hierarchies. --From publisher's description.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

PREFACE: A Japanese Anarchist in Paris (1923)

CHAPTER 1: Pugachev's Uprising and Beyond: Setting the Stage for Makhno's Ukraine (1772-1861)

CHAPTER 2: Makhno's Childhood (1888-1904)

CHAPTER 3: Makhno's Political Awakening (1905-9)

CHAPTER 4: Capture and Imprisonment (1908-10)

CHAPTER 5: The Modest One's Life in Prison (1911-17)

CHAPTER 6: Makhno's Education in Prison (1910-17)

CHAPTER 7: The Kerensky Jailbirds (1917)

CHAPTER 8: Makhno Returns to Moscow (1918)

CHAPTER 9: Makhno Returns to Huliaipole (1918)

CHAPTER 10: A Teacher and Terror as Method in Ukraine (1918)

CHAPTER 11: The Terrible Summer (1919)

CHAPTER 12: The War behind the Lines (1919)

CHAPTER 13: Retreating to Victory and Conspiracy (1919)

CHAPTER 14: Second Alliance with the Bolsheviks against the White Army (1920)

CHAPTER 15: The Sudden yet Inevitable Betrayal (1920-21)

CHAPTER 16: Nestor Makhno En Route to Paris (1921-25)

CHAPTER 17: Enemies and Friends in Parisian Exile (1925-34)

CHAPTER 18: Makhno's Writings outside the Platform in Exile (1926-34)

CHAPTER 19: Makhno and the Platform (1925-33)

CHAPTER 20: No Gods, No Masters: Nestor Makhno's Death and Legacy (1934)

CHAPTER 21: Anarchists You Should Know: Minibiographies

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781629636795

1629636797

OCLC:

1385455029