Committee Introduction

Makhnovshchina, also known as Makhno Movement, is the anarchist-revolutionary insurgency period to establish anarchist communism in southern and eastern Ukraine, named after and led by Nestor Makhno during Ukrainian War of Independence of 1917-1921. Emerging out of the chaos following the fall of the Russian Empire and the Russian Civil War, Makhnovist movement desired to establish a stateless and egalitarian society, rejecting both White monarchist and Bolshevik authoritarianist control. In BoğaziçiMUN’26, delegates will experience one of the most interesting periods of history: the Apex period of Makhnovshchina. Apex period, between late 1919 and early 1920, occurred when the Revolutionary Insurgent army of Ukraine advanced their controlled territory and implemented radical libertarian socialist policies.

In this edition of BoğaziçiMUN, delegates of Historical Crisis Committee, as members of different councils within society, will experience this unique period of time and see if the ‘the stateless society’ experiment can survive or not, while deciding the fate of the working class and standing against the Red Terror.