The aftermath of the Russian Revolution was a chaotic and bloody time – from 1917 until 1922, civil war consumed the former Russian Empire, as competing factions vied for power. One of the lesser known participants was a movement of Anarcho-communists who came to exert control over vast areas of southern Ukraine, led by a man named Nestor Makhno. This Ukrainian revolutionary, born into a family of peasants, earned himself a legendary reputation - fighting against the Central Powers, the Bolsheviks and the White Army in a bid to create an anarchist society in Southern Ukraine. Interestingly Makhno is also credited with inventing the Tachanka, the horse drawn gun carriage used extensively on the plains of the Eurasian steppe.

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- 'The Distant Sun' by Scott Buckley ([ Ссылка ])
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Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00
Makhno's Childhood - 1:22
Imprisonment - 3:14
Revolutionary Activity - 4:55
Invasion of the Central Powers - 7:30
Resistance and Bolshevik Alliance - 9:46
Declared an Outlaw - 12:20
Establishment of Anarchist territories - 14:47
Makhno's Tactics - 16:22
An Uneasy Alliance - 18:36
Bolshevik Betrayal - 19:23
End of the Makhnovschina - 21:55

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