The Makhno Movement and Bolshevism

ABSTRACT Nestor Makhno was an anarchist political prisoner who was released from prison with the February Revolution. He was able to convince anarchists in Huliaipole by numbing the “Social Committee” with anti-authoritarian theory. He succeeded in the first mass experiment of a united front of all classes in the village in Huliaipole, which would form the basis of his political struggle. In the process, the Peasant League became the Peasant Soviet. This article studies the social base of the Makhno Movement, and evaluates its political praxis against the background of its libertarian theoretical claims, especially in the context of its endeavors to differentiate itself from the Bolsheviks.