
No Harmless Power
Charlie Allison(Author)
PM Press
Published on 14. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-62963-471-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Both timely and timeless, this biography reveals Makhno s rapidly changing world and his place in it. He moved swiftly from peasant youth to prisoner to revolutionary anarchist leader, narrowly escaping Bolshevik Ukraine for Paris. This book also chronicles the friends and enemies he made along the way: Lenin, Trotsky, Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Ida Mett, and others."--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oakland
United States
Illustrations
20 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
294 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62963-471-5 (9781629634715)
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Persons
Charlie Allison is a writer, researcher, and storyteller based in Philadelphia. Charlie has worked as a gardener, tutor to children with learning disabilities, an English teacher, chess instructor, and as a bureaucrat. He has published short stories in Pickman’s Press, Podcastle, and Sea Lion Press. He currently runs his own website at charlie-allison.com, where the genesis for this book was formed as a series of You Tube videos with the help of Sewer Rats Productions. He is active in the Philadelphia storytelling and mutual aid communities. Charlie is frequently bullied by his cat in the small hours of the morning.
Content
PREFACE: A Japanese Anarchist in Paris (1923)
CHAPTER 1: Pugachev’s Uprising and Beyond: Setting the Stage for Makhno’s Ukraine (1772–1861)
CHAPTER 2: Makhno’s Childhood (1888–1904)
CHAPTER 3: Makhno’s Political Awakening (1905–9)
CHAPTER 4: Capture and Imprisonment (1908–10)
CHAPTER 5: The Modest One’s Life in Prison (1911–17)
CHAPTER 6: Makhno’s Education in Prison (1910–17)
CHAPTER 7: The Kerensky Jailbirds (1917)
CHAPTER 8: Makhno Returns to Moscow (1918)
CHAPTER 9: Makhno Returns to Huliaipole (1918)
CHAPTER 10: A Teacher and Terror as Method in Ukraine (1918)
CHAPTER 11: The Terrible Summer (1919)
CHAPTER 12: The War behind the Lines (1919)
CHAPTER 13: Retreating to Victory and Conspiracy (1919)
CHAPTER 14: Second Alliance with the Bolsheviks against the White Army (1920)
CHAPTER 15: The Sudden yet Inevitable Betrayal (1920–21)
CHAPTER 16: Nestor Makhno En Route to Paris (1921–25)
CHAPTER 17: Enemies and Friends in Parisian Exile (1925–34)
CHAPTER 18: Makhno’s Writings outside the Platform in Exile (1926–34)
CHAPTER 19: Makhno and the Platform (1925–33)
CHAPTER 20: No Gods, No Masters: Nestor Makhno’s Death and Legacy (1934)
CHAPTER 21: Anarchists You Should Know: Minibiographies
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the contributors
CHAPTER 1: Pugachev’s Uprising and Beyond: Setting the Stage for Makhno’s Ukraine (1772–1861)
CHAPTER 2: Makhno’s Childhood (1888–1904)
CHAPTER 3: Makhno’s Political Awakening (1905–9)
CHAPTER 4: Capture and Imprisonment (1908–10)
CHAPTER 5: The Modest One’s Life in Prison (1911–17)
CHAPTER 6: Makhno’s Education in Prison (1910–17)
CHAPTER 7: The Kerensky Jailbirds (1917)
CHAPTER 8: Makhno Returns to Moscow (1918)
CHAPTER 9: Makhno Returns to Huliaipole (1918)
CHAPTER 10: A Teacher and Terror as Method in Ukraine (1918)
CHAPTER 11: The Terrible Summer (1919)
CHAPTER 12: The War behind the Lines (1919)
CHAPTER 13: Retreating to Victory and Conspiracy (1919)
CHAPTER 14: Second Alliance with the Bolsheviks against the White Army (1920)
CHAPTER 15: The Sudden yet Inevitable Betrayal (1920–21)
CHAPTER 16: Nestor Makhno En Route to Paris (1921–25)
CHAPTER 17: Enemies and Friends in Parisian Exile (1925–34)
CHAPTER 18: Makhno’s Writings outside the Platform in Exile (1926–34)
CHAPTER 19: Makhno and the Platform (1925–33)
CHAPTER 20: No Gods, No Masters: Nestor Makhno’s Death and Legacy (1934)
CHAPTER 21: Anarchists You Should Know: Minibiographies
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the contributors