Nestor Makhno
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Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nestor Ivanovych Makhno , also known as Bat'ko Makhno , was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Civil War. He established the Makhnovshchina , a mass movement by the Ukrainian peasantry to establish anarchist communism in the country between 1918 and 1921. Initially centered around Makhno's home province of Katerynoslav and hometown, Huliaipole, it came to exert a strong influence over large areas of southern Ukraine.
