Nestor Makhno Archive

The Russian Revolution in Ukraine (March 1917 — April 1918)

Written: 1926
Source: Published by Black Cat Press, Edmonton 2007
Transcription/Markup: Andy Carloff
Online Source: RevoltLib.com; 2021

• Dedication
• Preface
• Part 1 - Chapter 1 : The Call of the Homestead
• Part 1 - Chapter 2 : Meeting With Comrades And First Attempts To Organize Revolutionary Activities
• Part 1 - Chapter 3 : Organization of the Peasants' Union
• Part 1 - Chapter 4 : Examination of the Police Files
• Part 1 - Chapter 5 : Re-election of the Public Committee; Whether or Not to Get Involved in It
• Part 1 - Chapter 6 : The Role of Teachers; Our work in the Public Committee
• Part 1 - Chapter 7 : The First of May; Relationship of the Peasants to the Land Question
• Part 1 - Chapter 8 : The Workers' Strike
• Part 1 - Chapter 9 : Some Results
• Part 1 - Chapter 10 : Struggle Against Rent
• Part 1 - Chapter 11 : P.A. Kropotkin arrives in Russia; Meeting with Ekaterinoslav Anarchists
• Part 1 - Chapter 12 : Kornilov's March on Petrograd
• Part 1 - Chapter 13 : Struggle with the Counter-Revolution; Going to the Villages
• Part 1 - Chapter 14 : Visit to the Factory Workers of Aleksandrovsk
• Part 1 - Chapter 15 : The Provincial Soviet Makes Advances to Gulyai-Pole
• Part 2 - Chapter 16 : October Coup d’état in Russia
• Part 2 - Chapter 17 : Elections to the Constituent Assembly; Our Attitude Towards the Party Strife
• Part 2 - Chapter 18 : Provincial Congress
• Part 2 - Chapter 19 : Counter-Revolution of the Ukrainian Central Rada
• Part 2 - Chapter 20 : With the Left Bloc Against the Counter-Revolution
• Part 2 - Chapter 21 : Armed Peasantry go to the Aid of the City Workers; the Aleksandrovsk Revkom and the Commission of Inquiry
• Part 2 - Chapter 22 : Battle with Cossacks, Negotiations, and an Agreement
• Part 2 - Chapter 23 : My Observations on the Left Bloc in Aleksandrovsk
• Part 2 - Chapter 24 : Suppression of the Zemstvo Territorial Units; Formation of a Revkom by Members of the Soviet; Search for Funds
• Part 2 - Chapter 25 : How the Exchange of Goods Between City and Village was Organized and How we Struggled to Make it Work
• Part 2 - Chapter 26 : New Members of Our Group
• Part 2 - Chapter 27 : The Agrarian Communes; Their Organization; Their Enemies
• Part 2 - Chapter 28 : The Successes of the German-Austrian Armies and the Ukrainian Central Rada against the Revolution; Agents of the Counter-Revolution and the Struggle Against Them
• Part 2 - Chapter 29 : Consolidation of the Detachments; Formation of a Single Front with the Left Bloc
• Part 2 - Chapter 30 : Egorov’s Urgent Summons; the Loss of Our Military Sector

Nestor Makhno