Makhnovshchina. Peasant movement in the steppe Ukraine during the Civil War

The free territory, or Makhnovshchina, populated by almost seven millions of people, was protected by the revolutionary rebel army of Nestor Makhno. Nestor Makhno, who was popularly called "Older", each time turned the weapon against those who at that moment posed the greatest threat to the peasantry, signed an agreement with the Soviet regime three times and violated it three times.
confronts both red and white, the Makhnovites began to create their own self -government society. After the fall of the hetman regime, the territory was occupied by the white troops of Anton Denikin. By 1920, Denikin’s troops were supplanted from the territory of the Red Army in cooperation with the forces of Nestor Makhno, units of which fought a partisan war in the rear of the enemy