Filter By Author

Sean Patterson

Sean Patterson is a doctoral student at the University of Alberta, exploring historical memory in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region over the 20th century. Patterson graduated from the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg’s joint masters program, where he was awarded the W.L. Morton Gold Medal for outstanding research. He currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta.

Makhno and Memory

Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917–1921

Sean Patterson (Author)

Nestor Makhno has been called a revolutionary anarchist, a peasant rebel, the Ukrainian Robin Hood, a mass-murderer, a pogromist, and a devil. Through a meticulous analysis of the Makhnovist-Mennonite conflict, Sean Patterson attempts to make sense of the competing cultural memories and presents new ways of thinking about Makhno and his movement.