[1] After returning to Russia, he became a political economy and history teacher at the Russian Popular University and at the Free College of Social Sciences, the latter of which had been founded by French anarchists.

[1] From their influence Borovoi became interested on French syndicalism, which he voiced his support for in lectures, denying parliamentarism and calling for a social revolution to radically reconstruct society.

"[1] In early 1918, Borovoi established the Union of Ideological Propaganda of Anarchism and also edited its official organ, the daily newspaper Life (Russian: Жизнь).

[1] Despite the repression, Borovoi continued holding lectures about anarchist theory and history, and publishing the literature of classical anarchism, until Autumn 1922, when he was stripped of his status as a professor and banned from teaching.

[1] Isolated and living in poverty, he spent his final years working as an accountant in Vladimir, where he died on 21 November 1935.