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 [...], 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.

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