Kiev-Poltava railway line and on the highway between the cities of Pereyaslev and Zolotonosha on the left bank of the Dnieper, calling upon the peasants to rise against Denikin. The Batki Sokolovsky and Arbel succeeded in organizing quite considerable bodies of troops along the Kiev-Poltava railroad line, and the Ataman Malinov did the same in the neighborhood of Kherson. Makhno, however, was the man who played the chief role in the rise of the Ukrainian peasants against Denikin. His troops of freebooters continued their activity along the whole lower course of the Dnieper between Melitopol and Yekaterinoslav. A whole line of reports state that all the activities of the several units were subordinated to the united leadership of Makhno' s staff and that they were even partly united with his main forces. That Makhno, who had recognized as early as the time of Grigoriev the danger that a Denikin invasion would have for the Ukrainian middle class peasant and had fought against it, should have been able to step into the centre of the freebooter movement against Denikin is easily understood.
The internal front, the uprising of the village against the now "white" city, from which nothing came except the order "concerning the third sheaf," requisitions and confiscations, with the appearance of penal companies, had disappointed the hopes of the urban middle classes about cheap bread. The price of bread (which determines all other prices) remained after some relatively slight variation very high (to be sure it was lower than under the Soviet government). The "karbovantzy" as well as the money of the Soviet government, the very medium which was current among the middle classes, were declared of no value.
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The Ukrainian culture was proscribed, the schools were closed and as a result the nationalistic tendencies bore the most luxuriant flowers.
The white terror prevailed in the occupied city. In the mind of the Restoration Government, for in the last resort this is what the Denikin Government was, the principal crimes were the March revolution and the destruction of absolutism, for they had destroyed the "great, united and undivided Russia" and introduced great confusion and ruin. "All social forces, all parties who participated in them are equally 'seditious/ dangerous and illicit, equally deserving of persecution and partial annihilation. Bolsheviki, Mensheviki, Trudoviki (group of laborers) or people's socialists — they are all rebels and responsible for the reduced state of the land."
Anti-Semitism was one of the fundamental elements of the* Restoration rule, exactly as under the tsar, and the rule of Denikin approached this ideal with gigantic steps. All traces of the "liberties" promised in the Kerensky period were definitely wiped out, among them the liberties granted to the Jews.