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Part One: Nestor Makhno: Anarchist Warlord and Book Club Aficionado

Behind the Bastards

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Macno and the Cossacks

After six months of study and careful vetting, conversational vetting, they make Nestor a full member of the group. They graduate from just reading books to handing out propaganda and giving lectures to their fellow peasants. And Nestor was eager to do more than that. In the wake of the czar's terror, prominent anarchists in Russia urged their fellows into a period of black terror against czarism itself.

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