Makhnovshchina is a phenomenon of incredible scope and significance, which played a huge and extremely complex role in the fate of the revolution, a phenomenon that made one speak and be interested in it not only in Russia, but also abroad. This book is the first systematic study of Makhnovism, based on real facts and events, in which the author himself was a participant, Pyotr Andreevich Arshinov (1887 - c. 1937) - a Russian politician, anarchist, who during his stay in hard labor in 1911-17. met the future leader of the rebel army of Ukraine Nestor Makhno.