Original sentence: But almost immediately after these events, a new government, led by the Ukrainian Nationalist Symon Petlura, installed itself in Kiev.But these various Palace Revolutions went unnoticed by the mostly Anarchist peasants of the South-Central region of the Ukraine where Makhno and Kropotkin were far more popular than Lenin or Marx.Petliura had completely misjudged what the Ukrainian people wanted.There they reassembled their troops and prepared for a last stand of the Ukrainian Revolution.This state of affairs did not last in the face of an invasion of the Free Territory by Anton Denikin's White Army.Thus, the Austro-Germans left the Ukraine and the dictatorship of Hetman Skorapadskiy collapsed without them
Edited sentence: But all these assorted Palace Revolutions went unnoticed by the mostly Anarchist peasants of the South-Central region of the Ukraine where Makhno and Kropotkin were far more popular than Lenin or Marx.But almost immediately after the people had freed themselves, a new government, led by the Ukrainian Nationalist Symon Petlura, installed itself in Kiev.From November 1918 to June 1919 there were no governors or slaves, no policemen or gendarmes, no capitalists or landowners, no capital or private property, only the communes and councils of a truly free people.It was in that region where freedom was valued just as much as equality, that the Revolution flourished.Of course this state of affairs could not last in the face of a massive invasion of the Free Territory by the counter-revolutionary troops of Anton Denikin's White Army.Petliura had completely misjudged what the Ukrainian people wanted (the immediate abolition of capitalism was what most Ukrainians were striving for.There they reassembled their troops and prepared for one mighty last stand of the Ukrainian Revolution.Thus, the Austro-Germans left the Ukraine and the brutal dictatorship of the Hetman Skorapadskiy collapsed without them