1. Trotsky Stalin, New York and London, 1941. p. 337. Oddly, this passage does not figure in the French edition of the book. It must be assumed that the publisher or the translator censored rhis posthumous “boldness” on the part of the master.
2. Victor Serge, op. cit. pp. 135—136.
3. S. I. Gusev, “Lessons of the Civil War” in The Civil War and the Red Army (in Russian) Moscow, 1958. p. 88.
4. Ya. YAaovXev, Anarchism in the Great Russian Revolution (in Russian), Moscow, 1921, pp. 15—36.
5. Arshinov op. cit. p. 180.
6. Ibid, p. 181.
7. Kubanin op. cit. p. 212.
8. Idem.
9. Yefimov op. cit. p. 215.
10. The Civil War in the Ukraine op. cit. p. 771.
11. As suggested by Alexei Nikolaev, author of three factional works on Makhno and the Makhnovschina: Batko Makhno, Riga, 1928; Nestor Makhno, Riga, 1929; and First Among Equals, Detroit, 1947. The author had lived in the area at the time and had also met Makhnovists and Makhnos wife, after Makhnos death. The only other reference to this alleged killing is in Rudnev, who mentions that “machine-guns were to be used” to defeat the Makhnovists in the Crimea, op. cit. p. 93.
12. Yefimov op. cit. pp. 213—214.
13. Gazeta Krasnoarmeitsa, quoted by G. Rimsky in The Last Days of the Crimea, Constantinople, 1920. p. 21.
14. M. V. Frunze SelectedWorks (in Russian), Moscow, 1957, Tome 1, pp. 427—429.
15. Ibid. p. 430.
16. Memoirs on Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Tome II, p. 314 and M. V. Frunze on the Civil War Fronts, Moscow 1941, pp. 460 and 463.
17. Marcel Ollivier, Un holchivik dangereux, typewritten manuscript, second part, pp. 142— 143. We thank the author for having so kindly allowed us to publish these excerpts.
18. Ibid. p. 153.
19. Ibid. p. 160.
20. J. Xydias French Intervention in Russia 1918—1919 op. cit. p. 74.
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