Career
Along with several other anarchists, he was imprisoned on 8 March 1921 following a Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation sweep of anarchists in the area. After a hunger strike attracted the attention of visiting syndicalists, Maximoff was one of the 10 anarchists who were released from prison and deported. Maximoff"s work was first published in the United States by the Union of Russian Workers, an anarchist organization with nearly 10,000 members which had a substantial presence in New York City.
This one of Maximoff"s best remembered works in which he analysis the consequences of the Bolshevik seizure of power in the October Revolution.
He bases this argument on his reading of The Next Tasks of the Soviet Power.