{"product_id":"no-harmless-power-9798887440323","title":"No Harmless Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eLively, incendiary, and inspiring, \u003ci\u003eNo Harmless Power\u003c\/i\u003e follows the life of Nestor Makhno, who organized a seven-million-strong anarchist polity during the Russian Civil War and developed Platformist anarchism during his exile in Paris as well as advising other anarchists like Durruti on tactics and propaganda.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Both timely and timeless, this biography reveals Makhno’s rapidly changing world and his place in it. He moved swiftly from peasant youth to prisoner to revolutionary anarchist leader, narrowly escaping Bolshevik Ukraine for Paris. This book also chronicles the friends and enemies he made along the way: Lenin, Trotsky, Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Ida Mett, and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Harmless Power\u003c\/i\u003e is the first text to fully delve into Makhno’s sympathy for the downtrodden, the trap of personal heroism, his improbable victories, unlikely friendships, and his alarming lack of gun safety in meetings. Makhno and the movement he began are seldom mentioned in most mainstream histories—Western or Russian—mostly on the grounds that acknowledging anarchist polities calls into question the inevitability and desirability of the nation-state and unjust hierarchies.\u003cbr\u003eWith illustrations by N.O. Bonzo and Kevin Matthews, this is a fresh, humorous, and necessary look at an under examined corner of history as well as a deep exploration of the meaning—and value, if any—of heroism as history.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Charlie Allison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48286850449659,"sku":"9798887440323","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9798887440323.jpg?v=1772491767","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/no-harmless-power-9798887440323","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}