Anarchists during the Russian Revolution
Florrisant States
15-08-2005, 02:27
Due to the myopic nature of my public education, I only knew about various assasinations by anarchists outside of the USA. Therefore I thought they were allied with the left almost entirely.
I read this from a Ukrainian author.
In the last century the Korsun battlefields have witnessed two battles. At time of revolution, the army of Ukrainian anarchists chaised down and killed a red army troop on this field. Elena Filatova's - The Serpent's Wall (http://www.theserpentswall.com/page30.html)
Beth Gellert
15-08-2005, 02:32
So what are you getting at, here? I'm not sure, but it might just help to recognise that the Red Army spent almost its entire history as an anti-leftist force, and was sent against anarchists and communists wherever it could reach them.
Ah, the Makhnovists? The forgotten anarchist army of the twentieth century. Somehow the anarchist International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War always seem to get the limelight. Did they manage to invent the horse-drawn machinegun outpost? Did they hell, that was Makhno and his boys. Did they manage to bring a limited kind of liberty to the emancipated serfs of the Ukraine? Did they hell, that was Makhno and his boys. Did they manage to shafted by the evil forces of authoritarian statist communism? Yeah, they did actually. Funny, same thing happened to Makhno and his boys... you know, I'm starting to see a pattern here.
What, are these guys the same as the Green Army?
Free Soviets
15-08-2005, 07:10
What, are these guys the same as the Green Army?
to a certain extent there was overlap between the greens and the anarchists. but it is my understanding that the green army in general refers to the ukrainian nationalist forces, while the anarchists were the black army (otherwise known as the revolutionary insurrectionary army of ukraine, or just the makhnovshchina).
Free Soviets
15-08-2005, 07:17
Due to the myopic nature of my public education, I only knew about various assasinations by anarchists outside of the USA. Therefore I thought they were allied with the left almost entirely.
the anarchists in ukraine (and russia for that matter) had a rather strained relationship with the bolshies. on the one hand, they were excellent at the whole revolution thing. on the other, they kept getting in the way of ye olde dictatorship. of the proletariat, i mean. so you had lenin, trotsky, and pals essentially talking out of both sides of their mouths, proclaiming the anarchists to be heroes of the revolution and then ordering them to be shot on sight.