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After the 1917 revolution, what position did Nestor Makhno have in his home town?
Local revolutionary leader
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After the 1917 Russian Revolution, Nestor Makhno became a local revolutionary leader in his home town of Gulyai-Polye. He quickly became a leading figure in the Ukrainian anarchist movement and led the Makhnovshchina, a peasant-based revolutionary army that fought against the Bolsheviks and other factions during the Russian Civil War.
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