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[[File:Fauresebastien police.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|[[Sébastien Faure]], prominent French theorist of libertarian communism as well as atheist and freethought militant]]
 
The [[Revolutions of 1917–1923|revolutionary wave of 1917–1923]] saw the active participation of anarchists in Russia and Europe. Russian anarchists participated alongside the [[Bolshevik]]s in both the [[February Revolution|February]] and [[October Revolution|October]] 1917 revolutions. However, Bolsheviks in central Russia quickly began to imprison or drive underground the libertarian anarchists. Many fled to Ukraine,.<ref>{{cite book|last=Avrich|first=Paul|title=The Russian Anarchists|publisher=AK Press|location=Stirling|year=2006|isbn=1904859488|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5pqSkSgKacAC&q=The+Russian+Anarchists+libertarian&pg=PA195|pages=195, 204|access-date=26 October 2020|archive-date=23 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323162647/https://books.google.com/books?id=5pqSkSgKacAC&q=The+Russian+Anarchists+libertarian&pg=PA195|url-status=live}}</ref> whereAfter theythe fought for theanarchist [[Makhnovshchina]] inhelped the [[Russian Civil War]]stave againstoff the [[White movement]], monarchists and other opponents of revolution and then against Bolsheviks as part ofduring the [[RevolutionaryRussian InsurgentCivil Army of Ukraine]] led by [[Nestor MakhnoWar]], who established an anarchist society in the region.Bolsheviks Theturned victory ofon the Bolsheviks damaged anarchist movements internationally as workersMakkhnovists and activistscontributed joined [[Communist party|Communist parties]]. In France andto the Unitedschism States, for example, members ofbetween the major syndicalist movements of the [[Confédération générale du travail|CGT]]anarcho-syndicalists and [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] joined the [[Comintern|Communist International]]Communists.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Drachkovitch|editor1-first=Milorad M.|first=Max|last=Nomad|author-link=Max Nomad|contribution=The Anarchist Tradition|title=The Revolutionary Internationals, 1864–1943|publisher=Stanford University Press|page=88|year=1966|isbn=0804702934}}{{verify source|datechapter-url=March 2013https://archive.org/details/revolutionaryint0000unse_y9l9/page/88/mode/2up}}</ref>
 
With the rise of [[fascism]] in Europe between the 1920s and the 1930s, anarchists began to fight fascists in Italy,<ref>Holbrow, Marnie, [http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=8205 "Daring but Divided"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729114710/http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=8205 |date=29 July 2013 }} (''Socialist Review'', November 2002).</ref> in France during the [[6 February 1934 crisis|February 1934 riots]]<ref>Berry, David. "Fascism or Revolution." ''Le Libertaire''. August 1936.</ref> and in Spain where the [[Confederación Nacional del Trabajo|CNT]] (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo) boycott of elections led to a right-wing victory and its later participation in voting in 1936 helped bring the popular front back to power. This led to a ruling class attempted coup and the [[Spanish Civil War]] (1936–1939).<ref>Antony Beevor, ''The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939'', Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, p. 46, {{ISBN|978-0297848325}}.</ref> Gruppo Comunista Anarchico di Firenze held that during the early twentieth century, the terms libertarian communism and anarchist communism became synonymous within the international anarchist movement as a result of the close connection they had in Spain ([[anarchism in Spain]]), with ''libertarian communism'' becoming the prevalent term.<ref>Gruppo Comunista Anarchico di Firenze (October 1979). [http://www.fdca.it/fdcaen/historical/vault/ancom-libcom.htm "Anarchist Communism & Libertarian Communism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018191416/http://www.fdca.it/fdcaen/historical/vault/ancom-libcom.htm |date=18 October 2017 }}. ''L'informatore di parte''. '''4'''.</ref>