The Forgotten Story of the Free Territory

The Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) is the latest in a long history of free territories

A flag used by the black army (translated).

When the February 1917 revolution overthrew the Tsar in Russia, political prisoners were freed from the jails in Moscow and looked up to as heroes who had fought the old regime. Later that year, in October, the Bolsheviks led a second…