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The Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Oleksandrivsk.

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Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents

Congress of Makhnovshchina

The Regional Congresses of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents represented the "highest form of democratic authority" within the political system of the Makhnovshchina. They brought together delegates from the region's peasantry, industrial workers and insurgent soldiers, which…
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Makhnovshchina

Ukrainian anarchist movement

The Makhnovshchina was a mass movement to establish anarchist communism in southern and eastern Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence of 1917–1921. Named after Nestor Makhno, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine, its aim was to create…
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Zaporizhzhia

City and administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine

Zaporizhzhia, formerly known as Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk until 1921, is a city in southeast Ukraine, situated on the banks of the Dnieper River. It is the administrative centre of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Zaporizhzhia has a population of 710,052.
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October 27

Day of the year

October 27 is the 300th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 65 days remain until the end of the year.
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