There, in 1918, he founded the All-Russian Federation of Anarchists,[5] and he became editor of its press organ, Free Life (Russian: Вольная жизнь, Volnaya Zhizn), published in Moscow from 1919 to 1921.

[6] Controversially, Karelin urged anarchists to cooperate with the Bolshevik government, gaining a seat on the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

[10] In this novel, according to the blog Tolkovatelya,two English travelers tell about their visit to the anarchist country [...] moving from one village-commune to another and talking with their inhabitants.

These conversations are held around what Kropotkin and Karelin themselves are saying in their theoretical works: natural exchange, free distribution of labor, life in communes, based on solidarity, a union of the city and the village without forcible urbanization.

Nonviolence (as in the Tolstoy communities) is the main feature of this utopia, which distinguishes it from the general background of the revolutionary era.