Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army Of Ukraine
The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine (Ukrainian: "Революційна Повстанська Армія України", Russian: Революционная Повстанческая Армия Украины", Revolyutsionnaya Povstancheskaya Armiya Ukrainy), popularly called Makhnovshchina, less correctly Makhnovchina, and also known as the Black Army, was an anarchist army formed largely of Ukrainian and Crimean peasants and workers under the command of the famous anarchist Nestor Makhno during the Russian Civil War. They protected the operation of "free soviets" and libertarian communes in the Free Territory, an attempt to form a stateless Anarchist society from 1918 to 1921 during the Ukrainian Revolution.
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