I've been reading about Makhno and I've found it hard to understand his leadership.
I get that he was a Robin Hood type figure, but nothing on actual leadership. Surely being anarchist would be an inherent problem concerning him telling people what to do?
Also, was he naive about how the Bolsheviks would treat him, considering he wanted very little/no government, and he allied with authoritarians? Surely he couldn't have envisioned living in an autonomous Ukraine within the borders of the Soviet Union?
I've been reading about Makhno and I've found it hard to understand his leadership
Dominic Morgan
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Lincoln Sanchez
Makhno was the Slavic Pol Pot.
Hudson Evans
I've heard the Bolsheviks - or at least Lenin and Trotsky - actually played with the idea of allowing experimental anarchist territories inside the USSR at one point. Obviously that didn't pan out, but the thought existed.
Doing a bit of Googling apparently the source is Trotsky's memoirs, though all I can find are second-hand references to this passage:
Jonathan Mitchell
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Cooper Martinez
I don't need 500ish pages, I'm asking direct questions.
Julian Powell
do you know why the fuck did they not do this
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Tyler Price
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Eli Cox
One interesting event on this was when he and his black army was retreating from Denikins forces west across Ukraine and then ran into another loose militia group led by an opportunist, perhaps named Dimitrov. Both groups were gathered, then Makhno read out accussations against Dimitrov and sentenced him to death on the spot, then he ordered Dimitrov immediately shot. After this the other militia joined Makhno. Soon after this the retreating black army counter attacked against Denikins white forces. It was a glorious attack, probably the most glorious moment in the history of the free black state.
His leadership style could no doubt be authoritarian when it was required, but as an anarchist he didn't enforce any rules against the local proletarians. His army had rules, rape and killing innocent jews (of which a lot was happening in Pogroms all over the Russian empire) were crimes punishable by death.
He was awesome
Trotsky also sent people to assassinate Makhno several times so I somehow doubt the veracity of that claim
Leo Roberts
If anyone is interested I wrote an essay on Makhno for a course called "Introduction to Ukraine". The course was led by a Ukrainian national who insisted nazis had very little power in Ukraine historically and even less in the war today. He also was pushing the narrative of the Holodomor very hard. I tried to push back a bit in a civilized way but it was clear to me that the lecturer wasn't having any of it lol.
I got a grade of 4/5 so perhaps the essay isn't completely worthless, at least I had fun writing it. I'll post it here, if anyone reads it please tell me. If anyone wants a comprehensive source on the black army I can not recommend "History of the Makhnovist Movement 1918-1921, Peter Arshinov, 1921" enough, it is a great book written by a fellow fighter in the Black army.
Its available for free online. OP I think if you read it you will get a better answer to your question