Makhnovists "beyond the rapids": The Zaporozhian Cossack influence

Syndicated from Libcom on Mon, 2012-05-28

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<p> Sean Patterson on the relationship between the Russian revolution-era anarchist movement the Makhnovists and the Zaporozhian Cossacks. </p>

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My mother often told me about the lives of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, about their free communes in the old days ... But it never occurred to me that the day would come when I would feel myself their heir </div>
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Nestor Makhno </div>
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