Needless to say, the inhabitants were not consulted. Neither were they too pleased. Various insurgent movements arose and gradually consolidated.
Anarchists are the last people to engage in blind hero-worship.
At its height it had 30,000 volunteer combatants under arms. While all were inspired by anarchist ideas, only a small minority had worked-out anarchist views. It's an easy non-academic read. However the book is an almost exclusively military account of the movement. Arshinov makes no apologies for this.