Nestor Makhno Archive – English

English:

• Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft), Nestor Makhno and others of the Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad (the “Delo Truda” group) June-October 1926 Revised translation [Old translation]
  • Anarchism and Our Times, Nestor Makhno September 1925 Revised translation
  • Our Organization, Nestor Makhno November 1925 Revised translation
  • On Revolutionary Discipline, Nestor Makhno January 1926 Revised translation
  • The Problem of Organization and the Notion of Synthesis, Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad March 1926
  • Supplement to the Organizational Platform (Questions and Answers), Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad November 1926
  • Reply to invitation to join the Anarchist Communist International, “Pensiero e volontà” Group 1927
  • Reply of Some Russian Anarchists to the Platform, Volin et al. April 1927
  • On Defense of the Revolution, Nestor Makhno June 1927 Revised translation
  • Reply to Anarchism’s Confusionists, Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad August 1927
  • About a Project for Anarchist Organization, Luigi Fabbri September 1927
  • A Project of Anarchist Organisation, Errico Malatesta (a reply to the Platform) October 1927
  • Organization and Party, Maria Isidine April 1928
  • The Old and New in Anarchism, Petr Arshinov (a reply to Malatesta) May 1928
  • About the Platform, Nestor Makhno (a reply to Malatesta) 1928
  • Elements Old & New in Anarchism, Petr Arshinov December 1928
  • A Reply to Makhno, Errico Malatesta December 1929
  • On Collective Responsibility, Errico Malatesta April 1930
  • A Second Letter To Malatesta, Nestor Makhno August 1930
  • Anarchist Communist Manifesto, 1st Italian Section – International Anarchist Communist Federation
• The Russian Revolution in Ukraine (March 1917 – April 1918), Nestor Makhno
• The Anarchist Revolution, Nestor Makhno
• The Idea of Equality and the Bolsheviks, Nestor Makhno February 1926
• In Memory of the Kronstadt Revolt, Nestor Makhno March 1926
• The Struggle Against the State, Nestor Makhno October 1926
• To the Jews of All Countries, Nestor Makhno May 1927
• Great October in the Ukraine, Nestor Makhno October 1927
• The Makhovshchina and Anti-Semitism, Nestor Makhno December 1927
• The First of May: Symbol of a New Era in the Life and Struggle of the Toilers, Nestor Makhno 1928
• On the 10th Anniversary of the Makhnovist Insurgent Movement in the Ukraine, Nestor Makhno February 1928
• A Few Words on the National Question in the Ukraine, Nestor Makhno December 1928
• “Soviet” Power – Its Present and Its Future, Nestor Makhno October 1931
• The Paths of “Proletarian” Power, Nestor Makhno January 1932
• The ABC of the Revolutionary Anarchist, Nestor Makhno March 1932
• Letter to the Spanish Anarchists, Nestor Makhno October 1932
• On the History of the Spanish Revolution of 1931 and the Part Played by the Left and Right-Wing Socialists and the Anarchists, Nestor Makhno February 1933
• My Visit To The Kremlin, Nestor Makhno
• History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918-1921), Petr Arshinov
• The Two Octobers, Petr Arshinov
• The Makhnovists on the National and Jewish Questions, Petr Arshinov (from “History of the Makhnovist Movement”)
• Declaration of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (Makhnovist), Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (Makhnovist) [alternative version] 7 January 1920
• Comrade peasants!, Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (Makhnovist) 8 February 1920
• A word to the peasants and Workers of the Ukraine, Revolutionary Insurgent Army of the Ukraine (Makhnovist) March/April 1920
• Manifesto of the Insurgent Army (Makhnovist), Makhnovist Insurgent Army [alternative version] 27 April 1920
• Comrades in the Red Army, on the front line and in the home guard!, Makhnovist Insurgent Army (Makhnovist) 9 May 1920
• Down with fratricide!, Insurgent Makhnovists May 1920
• To all workers of the plough and the hammer!, Revolutionary Insurgents of the Ukraine (Makhnovists) May 1920
• Summons to the 4th Extraordinary Congress, Executive Committee of the Military Revolutionary Council
• To the young people, Insurgent Makhnovists June 1920
• A word from the Makhnovists to the labouring cossacks of the Don and the Kuban, Revolutionary Insurgents of the Ukraine (Makhnovists) June 1920
• Comrades in the Red Army!, Insurgent Makhnovists June 1920
• Pause! Read! Consider!, Insurgent Makhnovists [alternative version] June 1920

About Nestor Makhno or the Makhnovists:

• The Makhno FAQ, (extract from An Anarchist FAQ)
  • Why does the Makhnovist movement show there is an alternative to Bolshevism?
  • Who was Nestor Makhno?
  • Why was the movement named after Makhno?
  • Why was Makhno called “Batko”?
  • Can you give a short overview of the Makhnovist movement?
  • How were the Makhnovists organised?
  • Did the Makhnovists have a constructive social programme?
  • Did they apply their ideas in practice?
  • Weren’t the Makhnovists just Kulaks?
  • Were the Makhnovists anti-Semitic and pogromists?
  • Did the Makhnovists hate the city and city workers?
  • Were the Makhnovists nationalists?
  • Did the Makhnovists support the Whites?
  • What was the relationship of the Bolsheviks to the movement?
  • How did the Makhnovists and Bolsheviks differ?
  • How do the modern followers of Bolshevism slander the Makhnovists?
  • What lessons can be learned from the Makhnovists?
• The Unknown Revolution, Book III, Part II, Volin
• Nestor Makhno, Alexander Berkman (from “The Bolshevik Myth”)
• Yossif the Emigrant, Alexander Berkman (from “The Bolshevik Myth”)
• The Personal Side of Nestor Makhno, various authors
  • Gulyai-Polye in 1918, N. Sukhogorskaya
  • Agafya Andreyevna, N. Sukhogorskaya
  • Memoirs, Agafya A. Kuzmenko
  • Makhno in Paris, Ida Mett
• My Disillusionment In Russia (selected chapters), Emma Goldman
• Living my life (extracts), Emma Goldman
• The Rehabilitation of Nestor Makhno, Alexandre Skirda
• In the Social Storm: Memoirs of the Russian Revolution, Boris Yelensky [external link]
• The Struggle Against the State – Bibliographical Afterword, Alexandre Skirda
• The Makhnovshchina, Daniel Guérin (from “Anarchism: From Theory To Practice“)
• Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Aleksandr Shubin
• Lenin, Trotsky & Makhno, Adam B. Ulam
• Nestor Makhno: The Man and the Myth, Paul Avrich
• Russian Anarchists and the Civil War, Paul Avrich
• Nestor Makhno and the Ukrainian Revolution, Frank Sysyn
• The Revolution That Failed, James Joll
• The Warrior: Nestor Makhno, the Bandit Who Saved Moscow, Max Nomad
• 1921: The Maslakov mutiny and the Makhnovists on the Don, Nick Heath
• In Defence of the Truth, by “Anarcho” (reply to John Rees’ article “In Defence of October”)
• On the Bolshevik Myth: When Leninists attack anarchism in their press, by “Anarcho”
• The Truth About Nestor Makhno, from Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library
• Notes on the Makhnovista…, Andrew Flood
• The Makhno Movement and Opposition within the Party, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit 1968
• Revolutionary Ukraine, Morpheus
• Panic At Peregonovka, Nessie
• Lenin, the Revolution Rapist, Revolt
• The Makhnovists & The Russian Revolution, Heather-Noël Schwartz
• Makhno & The Makhnovshchina: Myths & Interpretations, Ben Annis
• Review of Alexandre Skirda’s “Facing The Enemy”, Geert Dhondt
• “La Makhnovtchina”, song
• The Makhnovists. Biographies of some participants of the Makhnovist Movement, Nick Heath
• Atamansha, The life of Marusya Nikiforova, Malcolm Archibald 2007
• The Religion of Makhno, Dmitry Berger 2006
• A Makhnovist in Africa: Shalom Schwartzbard, Michael Schmidt
• A Siberian Makhnovshchina?, Frank Mintz
• The Kronstadt Revolt – the Gulyai-Pole Connection, Vyacheslav Azarov
• Makhno’s Black Cross, from Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library
• Interview with Pio Turroni, Luciano Ferraresi
• An Unsolved Mystery – the “Diary of Makhno’s Wife”, V. N. Litvinov 1990
• A Review of “Facing The Enemy”, Mark McGuire
• Proletarian Insurrection in Ukraine (1918-1921), Internationalist Communist Group
• Trotsky on Makhno, a collection of the writings of Leon Trotsky regarding the Makhnovist movement (Warning! Reading requires strong constitution!)
  • The Makhno Movement
  • Secret Order No.96/s
  • Military Revcom. Order No.1824
  • Order No.107
  • Order No.108
  • Report About The Situation On The Southern Front
  • Order No.112
  • Makhno and Others
  • Order No.180
  • What Is The Meaning Of Makhno’s Coming Over To The Side Of The Soviet Power?
  • Makhno and Wrangel
  • How Is Makhno’s Troop Organised?
• Nestor Makhno & the Makhno Movement, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
• The History of Anarchism in Russia: Chapter V, E. Yaroslavsky (more Bolshevik lies)