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Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921

by Sean Patterson

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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Nestor Makhno has been called a revolutionary anarchist, a peasant rebel, the Ukrainian Robin Hood, a mass-murderer, a pogromist, and a devil. These epithets had their origins in the Russian Civil War (1917-1921), where the military forces of the peasant-anarchist Nestor Makhno and Mennonite colonists in southern Ukraine came into conflict. In autumn 1919, Makhnovist troops and local peasant sympathizers murdered more than 800 Mennonites in a series of large-scale massacres. The history of that conflict has been fraught with folklore, ideological battles and radically divergent cultural memories, in which fact and fiction often seamlessly blend, conjuring a multitude of Makhnos, each one shouting its message over the other. Drawing on theories of collective memory and narrative analysis, Makhno and Memory brings a vast array of Makhnovist and Mennonite sources into dialogue, including memoirs, histories, diaries, newspapers, and archival material. A diversity of perspectives are brought into relief through the personal reminiscences of Makhno and his anarchist sympathizers alongside Mennonite pacifists and advocates for armed self-defense. Through a meticulous analysis of the Makhnovist-Mennonite conflict and a micro-study of the Eichenfeld massacre of November 1919, Sean Patterson attempts to make sense of the competing cultural memories and presents new ways of thinking about Makhno and his movement. Makhno and Memory offers a convincing reframing of the Mennonite / Makhno relationship that will force a scholarly reassessment of this period.
Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921 and Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921
Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917-1921

  • Author

    Sean Patterson

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    University of Manitoba Press

  • Published

    April 2020

  • Weight

    459g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780887558788

  • ISBN-10

    088755878X

  • Eden Code

    5236270

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