Personality of one of leaders of revolutionary anarchism of Nestor Махно (1888-1934) and today causes large interest in society. The documents promulgated after long prohibition allow to see in him the not anecdotic figure created by soviet agitation and propaganda department, and outstanding war-lord and organizer trying to incarnate the ideals of freedom and justice on native Ukraine. Afire Civil war detachments of Махно battled against white and red, interventionists and петлюровцев. In an unequal fight they were broken, their "father" made off life in emigration, but his ideas did not perish. All more labours, the authors of that investigate not only bright personality of Махно but also his theory and practice of самоорганизации of society in the counterbalance of repressing power of the state, appear the last years. Book of writer Vasiliy Голованова - one of the best researches of the phenomenon of Махно combining strict documentaryness with artistic mastery of exposition.