 On March 15, 1921, together with Makhno, he signed an order for temporary self-dissolution of the Army, after which he hid underground for some time.In May 1921, at the head of a rebel detachment, he again waged a guerrilla war against the Soviet regime.A leader of a part of the Makhnovists who, in the conditions of the disappointment and fatigue of the peasantry, by the summer of 1921 advocated reconciliation with the Bolsheviks and the departure to Turkey or to Galicia to help local revolutionary movements.