1917: Destruction of the Left

Destruction of the Non-Bolshevik Left

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Anarchist Bands in the Woods (1918)

Nestor Makhno (center) and his partisan rebels resisted both White and Red armies in the Ukrainian woods. Makhno's unreliable anarchist leanings were intensified by political intellectuals attached to the movement, who saw it as a realization of their dream of a stateless society. The Bolsheviks eventually drove Makhno and his followers from Soviet territory.

Elect the Socialist-Revolutionaries (1917)

Election poster of 1917 in support of one the Bolsheviks' most important rivals, the leftist SRs.
Source:
 Electronic Museum of Russian Posters. 2004.