...the history of the Russian Civil War itself provides an interesting case of an anarchist movement that built a highly effective military and political organization in the Ukraine: the Makhnovshchina, a movement organized and led by the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno (1889-1935). Bakunin and Kropotkin also argued that private property, as the foundation of all coercive structures of power, needed to be eliminated. in their theories, authoritative institutions, especially the state, exist solely to protect the owners of capital. ...the abolition of private ownership of capital would eliminate the very raison d'etre of the state and other forms of authority. Crucially, neither Bakunin nor Kropotkin was very clear about what an anarchist socioeconomic system would actually look like or how it might be constructed. indeed, they seemed to believe that people freed from the tyranny of authority and the burdens of private property would spontaneously cooperate and build a new order. The Military Revolutionary Council operated within a clearly anarcho- Communist framework and made no room, for instance, for the liberties of landlords or factory owners who might have wanted to maintain ownership of their private property.