Memoirs

17 hrs. 20 min.

Language Russian

Author Nestor Makhno

Narrator Vyacheslav Akhmodyarov

Description

It’s hard to find a more ambiguous figure in the history of the civil war. Nestor Ivanovich Makhno (Mikhnenko) was born in 1888 in the Ukrainian village of Huliaipole and died in Paris on July 25, 1934. That’s where the paths of a peasant boy, the leader of rebel detachments, the convinced anarchist “Batyko” Makhno led. About the fiery ataman with a searing gaze, they said he could throw energy fireballs and thicken the biofield around himself so that bullets would change their trajectory.

Of course, that’s unlikely. But he managed, in one year, to gather a peasant army of 140,000 from a starting detachment of just 30. An army that moved three times faster than the cavalry required by the regulations and struck terror into the ranks of Petliurites, Germans, and Red Army soldiers—Makhno managed to fight everyone. And the Republic of Huliaipole, with 7 million inhabitants, its own army, schools, and children’s communes—lived for a time, though not long. The father had only three years granted to him for his triumph—yet what triumphs! Then there was only one thing left: to write memoirs—“Memories.”