Following the October Revolution, he also began to agitate against the new Bolshevik government, which resulted in him being arrested and sentenced to periods of penal labor a number of times.
[3] Following the February Revolution, Bleikhman was released from his sentence and moved to Petrograd, where he quickly became leader of the local Anarchist-Communist Federation[4] and edited its newspaper Burevestnik.
[3] By July 1917, the workers, soldiers and sailors of Kronstadt were already beginning to move against the provisional government, in order to bring an end to Russian participation in World War I.
In what was to become the July Days, leading anarchists of the Kronstadt Soviet gave speeches in Anchor Square, encouraging the island's garrison to rise up against the provisional government.
While downplaying their lack of support from any political parties or the Petrograd Soviet, he also called on workers to seize control over their workplaces, finally dissolve the state and abolish the capitalist system.
[3] Bleikhman then led the 1st machine gun regiment to Petrograd,[9] where they held armed demonstrations calling for the soviets to seize power from the provisional government.
[13] When a series of raids were carried out against the Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups, Burevestnik compared the Cheka to generals of the Black Hundreds and denounced the as counter-revolutionary.
[3] In early 1919, he moved to Moscow, where he spoke at a series of non-party conferences in Zamoskvorechye, where he criticised the rule of the Russian Communist Party.
[19] By March 1921, the Kronstadt rebellion had broken out against the Bolshevik government, with revolutionaries once again holding meetings in Anchor Square, where Bleikhman had first roused them to revolt four years before.