> > > Abraham from previous thread - "Trotsky's Red Army refused to collaborate >> with the Anarchist Black Army [led by Machno] in fighting off the White >> Army" [led first by Denikin and later by Wrangel] >> ////////// >> >> anarchistlibrary.org, The Ukrainian utopia that almost existed, Kristen >> Gohdsee, June 23, 2023 >> >> "...Machno took command of a newly formed Revolutionary Insurgent Army of >> Ukraine, a scrappy guerrilla force of peasants that initially integrated >> with the Red Army. Together the fought against a third nationalist >> Ukrainian government, lead by Symon Petliera, as well as the >> counter-revolutionary White Army of forces gathering in the south. >> >> But Machno bristled at Bolshevik authoritarianism and mutinied against >> the Red Army command [Trotsky]. Now independent, he recruited ever more >> peasants and >> a growing number of Red Army deserters as the Bolsheviks retreated from >> Ukraine in the face of the White Army advance in the fall of 1919. But the >> peasants proved poor soldiers against well-trained generals. Falling back >> and taking heavy losses, the Insurgent Army sought an alliance with >> Petliera's Ukrainian People's Army. Their joined forces routed the Whites, >> and for a brief instant it looked as if Ukraine might be free. >> >> Instead, the Bolsheviks invaded once more, deposing Petliera, installing >> a Bolshevik-friendly government and creating the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist >> Republic. >> When the regrouped Whites [now led by Wrangel] launched another attack >> the Machnovists signed the Starobilsk agreement in October 1920, which >> meant renewed cooperation with the Red Army. >> >> Six weeks later, immediately following the decisive victory over the >> Whites, the Red Army invaded Huliaipole, rounded up and shot the >> Machnovists and incorporated the whole region into the Ukrainian SSR. >> Machno barely escaped." >> > >>
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