
Part One: Nestor Makhno: Anarchist Warlord and Book Club Aficionado
Behind the Bastards
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Mennonites Are Not Pacifists, Right?
Mennonites were not a pacifist in any way that you would recognize as pacifist. Many Mennonite landlords practice collective punishment when theft was suspected. All the potential suspects were flogged so as to teach a lesson to both the guilty and the innocent. The principle of pacifism had therefore been abandoned by wealthy Mennonites long before the Russian Revolution.
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