About the book: 1993 / Memoirs of a comrade-in-arms N.I. Makhno, his deputy and chief of staff V.F. Belasha, the testimonies of eyewitnesses and participants in the Makhnovshchina reveal one of the tragic pages of the civil war in Ukraine. For the first time, based on numerous original documents, the book recreates the image of one of the first holders of the Order of the Red Banner of Battle, Nestor Makhno, the organizer of the Insurgent Army (Makhnovists), his search for ways and methods of struggle in the name of freedom of the peoples of Ukraine. The actions of the Makhnovists from March 1917 to August 1921 are shown. Neither Lenin, nor Trotsky, nor Denikin could understand Nestor Makhno... History will understand him. For historians, school and university teachers, students, high school students, and a wide range of readers.