Volume 22

Number 2

Fall

2017

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Chaos and Utopia

The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution and Civil War

By Peter Mentzel

Were the Russian anarchists doomed to be crushed or co-opted by the Bolsheviks for reasons inherent in their ideology, such as anarchist theory’s ambivalence about power? The highly effective military and political organization of Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno (1889–1935) suggests not.

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