The Makhnovist Revolution was a revolution in Ukraine. This happened during a period of social changes in Russia.

Background

During the February Revolution, Ukrainian intellectuals around Mykhailo Hrushevsky established the Central Council of Ukraine. The central council would originally sought for freedom of the press and education in the Ukrainian language. However, it would eventually declare autonomy of the Ukrainian People's Republic.[1] It would happen in concert with the emergence of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, largely made up of Ukrainian social democrats and socialist revolutionaries, the Ukrainian anarchist movement began to experience a revival, accelerated by Nestor Makhno's return from imprisonment in Moscow.[2]

Revolution

The anarchist movement in Huliaipole, lead by Makhno, would establish a peasants' union, would seize control of the town from the provisional government locally there and would establish a soviet in its place. The seizure of the provisional government would lay the foundations for the implementations of anarcho-communism.[3] The anarchists in Huliaipole would declare its support for the worker's uprising in Petrograd.[4]. The new Makhnovist movement would begin the seizure of land from pomeshchiks and kulaks in Huliaipole and would redistribute the land among the peasantry there, aiming to abolish the concentration of land ownership. By the summer of 1917, the peasantry in Huliaipole would stop paying rent to their landlords and brought the majority of the lands under a land trust.[5]

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References

  1. ^ Darch 2020, p. 10.
  2. ^ Shubin 2010, pp. 152–153.
  3. ^ Shubin 2010, pp. 153–154.
  4. ^ Malet 1982, pp. 3–4.
  5. ^ Shubin 2010, pp. 154–155.
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