sep 1, 1920 - in September 1920, when Ekaterinaslav was evacuated by the Communists, and when Wrangel
occupied Berdyansk, Aleksandrovsk, Gulyai-Polye and
Sinel'nikovo, a plenipotentiary delegation from the Central
Committee of the Communist-Bolshevik Party, headed by the
Communist Ivanov, came to Starobel'sk, where the Makhno-
vists were camped, to begin negotiations on the subject of
combined action against Wrangel. These negotiations took
place on the spot, in Starobel'sk, and it was there that a
preliminary military-p