A conflict that has always fascinating me is the Russian Civil War, and this is in no small part due to the diverse array of factions and ideologies that existed alongside the larger Red and White armies. Among these smaller factions that interest me the most were the short-lived anarchist governments created within Russia that were, for all intents and purposes, often pretty successful up until the Bolsheviks invaded. It's also worth pointing out that there were a handful of anarchists, such as Alexander Schapiro, that worked with the Bolsheviks before being ousted from the regime.
In OTL, none of these groups or ideologies really ever had a chance at winning the Russian Civil War due to, among other things, their size, but the challenge here is to find a way to make an anarchist movement emerge victorious in an alternate Russian Civil War, be it through Makhnovia somehow gaining support throughout wider Russia, the Kronstadt Rebellion being successful, a coalition of anti-Bolshevik leftists emerging, the Bolsheviks themselves going down a very different ideological path before the Russian Civil War begins ITTL, etcetera. Also, assuming the anarchists do emerge victorious in the Russian Civil War, what would such a nation look like going forward with regards to both its domestic and foreign policy?
In OTL, none of these groups or ideologies really ever had a chance at winning the Russian Civil War due to, among other things, their size, but the challenge here is to find a way to make an anarchist movement emerge victorious in an alternate Russian Civil War, be it through Makhnovia somehow gaining support throughout wider Russia, the Kronstadt Rebellion being successful, a coalition of anti-Bolshevik leftists emerging, the Bolsheviks themselves going down a very different ideological path before the Russian Civil War begins ITTL, etcetera. Also, assuming the anarchists do emerge victorious in the Russian Civil War, what would such a nation look like going forward with regards to both its domestic and foreign policy?