Greens

• Green guerrilla forces

  Emerged, consisting mostly of peasants and sometimes led by anarchists or mercenaries
• Activities of the Greens

  • Looting
  • Banditry
  • Fought both White and Red forces, causing further devastation
• Nestor Makhno


  The most infamous Green chieftain
• Makhno sometimes collaborated with the Communists


  Killed captured White officers
• Makhno occasionally clashed with Red forces


  Executed captured political commissars
• Peasants' logic

  Paradoxical: they supported Soviet power for providing them with land but opposed the Communists for taking their grain and cattle