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The February Revolution, which put forward Aleksandr Kerensky bourgeois Republican government Russia, Ukraine is settled with the government of Symon Petlura Democratic leader of the nationalist bourgeoisie. Naturally, the proliferation of the Soviets (who had worked when Kerensky power in Russia) and the expulsion of landowners if given, resist (better would be ignoring) attempts infiltration and control by the Bolshevik party. By the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Lenin Ukraine delivered the Austrians and Germans, who restored the power of the nobles and landowners, and loot the country, all you have some type of value (food, weapons, jewelry) is confiscated and sent to Germany. Ukrainian workers took up arms to defend their recent conquests, and form the guerrillas. These guerrillas are voluntary, in them the designation of the grades is elective and acceptance of the discipline is voluntary. The strategy is to bolster a liberated region from which resistance spread concrete while revolution on libertarian grounds. They are organized in soviets also called free or free agricultural communes (these should be completely independent of any political party's decision-making assemblies). Communes (soviets) are federated into districts, and these regions. Thus, in the South of Ukraine (a territory that formed a circle of about 250 by 280 kilometers and was centered Guliai-Polio) is used to implement the idea and write position papers on social revolution and the free communes and continuously hold meetings (meetings and conferences).
Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists, led by Petlura, made with the territory still in German hands. And when they try to conquer the South, the anarchist insurrectionary army repels them constantly, dealing serious setbacks. Anyway, area held by Petlura soon falls into the hands of the Russian Bolsheviks. In December 1918, General Anton Ivanovich Denikin starts the first counter-attacks of the royalists and Ukraine. There is a Bolshevik-maknovista alliance to confront the threat, but asserts Leon Trotsky Denikin prefer a victory in Ukraine, which allow the expansion of the anarchists and the "contamination" of the masses, so it will not give weapons to maknovistas guerrillas (that they did it again the Stalinist eighteen years after the English Civil War). Then there is a military campaign by the Bolsheviks to prevent the Fourth Congress of Free Soviets, and defined as an act of treason any participation in this conference (almost a year earlier had declared "counter" to the Third Congress) and attempt to assassinate Nestor Makhno.
Denikin get through Ukraine and continues to Moscow, killing the Red armies in their path. While the anarchists recede slowly, regroup and fight. Finally, the army suddenly attacked libertarian most of the army of Denikin and the Battle of Uman's annihilate almost completely, so that the white army withdrew to the Crimea. In November 1919 the Bolsheviks attacked the South of Ukraine. Not less than two hundred thousand peasants and workers were shot or mutilated by the Bolshevik army, Makhno supporters considering them. A higher number is brought to Siberia at that stage. In April 1920, Wrangel penetrates from Crimea to the last reserves of the Tsarist armies. Again establishing the Bolshevik alliance to end Makhnovist whites. In the agreement, the anarchists, insisted on adding the following clause: "In the region where the army operates Makhnovist worker and peasant population will create their own institutions free to economic and political self-administration, these institutions will be autonomous and will be linked states - by covenants, with government agencies of the Soviet republics.
anarchists fall in November in the Crimea and destroy the czarist army. Shortly thereafter, the government Bolshevik invited Makhnovist army officers in the Crimea to participate in a military council. As soon as they arrived at the meeting, were arrested by the Cheka (political police) and shot. At the same time launched an offensive against Guliai-depth polyether. The libertarian guerrillas decimated by the war against the whites, only 3000 available combatants should face the 150,000 Red Army. All groups are being annihilated. In the summer of 21 November, a group of 100 riders (30 of them wounded, including Makhno) get across the river Dniester, going to Romania. Definitely annihilated the guerrillas, the Bolsheviks engaged in the months following the "total cleansing" (shootings and deportations) of Ukraine. In the years since removed the memory of which represented the anarchist movement.
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