During the Civil War Makhno played an important role in the defeat of General Anton Denikin in 1919 and General Peter Wrangel in 1920. Makhno's decision to set up an Anarchist society in the Ukraine resulted in him being attacked by the Red Army . After the Russian Revolution the United States government decided to deport Emma Goldman to Russia from the United States. As an anarchist, Goldman was repelled by the Bolshevik dictatorship and after marrying a Welsh miner she managed to obtain British citizenship. The Russian anarchist, Vsevolod Volin , wrote a libertarian history of the Russian Revolution , The Unknown Revolution , that was published in French in 1947 and English in 1954.
Social progress is possible only under complete republican freedom, under full democratic equality.
A republic that would not lead to Socialism seems an absurdity to us - a transitional stage regarding itself as the goal. On the other hand, Socialism which might try to dispense with political freedom would rapidly degenerate into an autocratic Communism. The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution.