Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 9. 1ts May 1973
The Antisemitism of Russian Anarchists
The Antisemitism of Russian Anarchists
Dear Peter and Roger,
Strange though it may seem to Graham Rua, my reference to Makhno was baaed on non-Trotskyist sources.
Everyman's Encyclopaedia (Vol. 8, page 228) states that Makhno's raids were "invariably accompanied by great violence and pogroms".
The Jewish writer Joel Cang, a bitter critic of the Bolsheviks, states on page 60 of his book "The Silent Millions", in reference to the killing or maiming of a quarter of a million jews in pogroms during the revolutionary period, that "almost all of them were organised by the anti-communist military group under the commind of Petlurya, Denikin, Makhno and some of the other generals fighting against the Bolsheviks". Plainly he errs in lumping in Makhno together with the other named anti-Bolsheviks in one command, but the allegation of pogrom remains.