Soviet anarchism

Soviet anarchism was a tendency of anarchism in Russia that supported the Russian Soviet Republic in the wake of the October Revolution. It largely consisted of anarcho-syndicalists and anarchist-communists who supported collaboration with the new state, with some taking government posts or serving in the Red Army. The Soviet anarchists believed that the Bolsheviks constituted a lesser evil than the White movement, and that cooperation with them was necessary to defeat what they considered reactionary forces. Some considered the dictatorship of the proletariat to be a temporary necessity in a transition towards anarchy and communism. With the end of the civil war, the Bolshevik government suppressed the Russian anarchist movement, including the Soviet anarchists. Some were imprisoned and exiled, while others withdrew from political life. Surviving Soviet anarchists who remained in the Soviet Union disappeared during the Great Purge.

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