

It’s possible that some may have forgotten assisting me. I want to acknowledge and thank the people who, over a long period of many years have given generous, willing and unstinting assistance in the research, writing, correspondence and, of course, conversation that have led to this book. Petersburg the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University Indiana University Library, Bloomington the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam the Library of Congress, Washington DC the National Library of Canada, Ottawa New York Public Library, New York City the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London the Schweizerische Landesbibliothek, Berne the Bodleian Library, Oxford the University Libraries of the University of Birmingham, the University of Bradford, the University of Helsinki, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the University of Toronto and the University of Wisconsin and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York City. Lenina, Moscow the then Gosudarstvennaia Publichnaia Biblioteka im. I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the librarians and archivists who have assisted me both personally and by providing me with photocopies or microfilm of necessary documents: the Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale Contemporaine (BDIC), Nanterre the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris the British Library, London the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz the Canadian Mennonite Bible College Library, Winnipeg the Centre Internationale des Recherches sur l’Anarchisme, Lausanne Columbia University Library, New York City the Deutsche Bücherei, Leipzig what was then the Gosudarstvennaia Biblioteka SSSR im. My interest in makhnovshchina dates back to the late 1960s, and the research for this book was carried out intermittently over the many years since then by visits to, or through correspondence with the following libraries, archives and research centres. Military-Revolutionary Soviet (Voenno-Revoliutsionnaia Sovet)Īll-Russian Central Executive Committee (Vserossiiskii Tsentral’nyi Ispolnitel’nyi Komitet) Ukrainian National Republic (Ukrains’ka Narodnia Respublika) Socialist Revolutionary Party (Partiia Sotsialistov-Revoliutsionerov)Ĭentral Exeutive Committee (Tsentral’nyi Vikonavchyi Komitet) Revolutionary Military Council (Revoliutsionnyi Voennyi Sovet)

Revolutionary Insurgent Army (makhnovists) (Revoliutsionnaia Povstancheskaia Armiia ) Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) (Rossiiskaia Kommunisticheskaia Partiia ) New Economic Policy (Novaia Ekonomicheskaia Politika) Group of Russian Anarchists Overseas (Gruppa Russkikh Anarkhistov za Granitsei)Ĭrimea-Azov Volunteer Army (Krims’ko-Azovs’ka Dobrovol’cha Armiia)Ĭommunist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine (Komunistychna Partiia Ukrainy) State Political Directorate (Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie)
