27 page 491. He was too little of one to actually allow them to do so. 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.