Nestor Ivanovich Makhno (Ukrainian: Нестор Іванович Махно, October 26, 1888 - July 25, 1934) was an anarcho-communist Ukrainian revolutionary who refused to align with the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution. He is credited with organizing an enormous experiment in anarchist values and practice, one which was cut short by the consolidation of Bolshevik power. Wikipedia
Cover notes: The Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno visited Moscow in June, 1918 and had extensive interviews with the Bolshevik leaders Sverdlov and Lenin. www.nestormakhno.info/english/krem/kremind.htm
The Platform was a document produced in 1926 by Russian anarchists of the Dielo Trouda group which included Makhno. It looked at the experience of anarchists in the Russian revolution and suggested an organisational method for anarchism in the future. It struggle.ws/platform/plat_preface.html
The Makhnoite movement showed on the battlefield how there is no "third camp" between the army of the workers state and the military organization of the bourgeoisie. www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/archives/oldsite/2005/Makhno-83...
Anarchists point chiefly to the example of anarchist Nestor Makhno and the Makhnovists in the Ukraine as a positive example of a libertarian alternative to Leninism. isreview.org/issues/53/makhno.shtml
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Nestor Makhno. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno
