Makhno was aggressively opposed to all factions that sought to impose their authority over southern Ukraine, battling in succession the forces of the Ukrainian National Republic, the Central Powers of Germany and Austro-Hungary, the Hetmanate state, the White Army, the Bolshevik Red Army, and other smaller forces led by various Ukrainian atamans. Makhno and the movement's leadership were anarcho-communists and attempted to guide the movement along these ideological lines. It was initially centered around Makhno's hometown Huliaipole but over the course of the Russian Civil War came to exert a strong influence over large areas of southern Ukraine. The Makhnovshchina was a predominantly peasant phenomenon that grew into a mass social movement. Makhno was the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, commonly referred to as the Makhnovshchina (loosely translated as "Makhno movement"). Nestor Ivanovych Makhno ( Ukrainian: Не́стор Івáнович Махно́, November 8 1888 – July 25, 1934), also known as Bat'ko Makhno ( Ukrainian: Бáтько Махно́, "Father Makhno"), was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of an independent anarchist army in Ukraine from 1917 to 1921.
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