 Understanding the need for widespread support in his quest for Communism, Lenin often deliberately appealed to anarchist sentiments in the eight months between the February and October Revolutions.Many optimistic anarchists interpreted Lenin's slogan of “All Power to the Soviets!” as the potential for a Russia run by autonomous collectives without the burden of central authority.Lenin also described the triumph of Communism as the eventual “withering away of the state.”
All this time, however, anarchists remained wary of the Bolsheviks.