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Who was Nestor Makhno? (Part 1)


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Today, we start a three part series on Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary during the Ukrainian Revolution in the late 1910s. Makhno was reviled by some, and praised by others. He commanded 100,000 troupes, bands of whom pillaged Mennonite villages, executed Mennonite landowners, and raped and killed Mennonite women. The Makhno name still strikes horror in some Mennonites today, while in Ukraine, a statue honours him.

In this series, I’ll take a deep dive into who Nestor Makhno was with historian Sean Patterson. Sean has been studying Makhno and his movement for fifteen years.

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