may 21, 1919 - The leading personality of the Makhnovist Kontrrazvedka, although not its actual chief, was Lev Zinkovsky. In the Soviet era he acquired a sinister reputation, for example, through his depiction in Alexey Tolstoy's potboiler "The Road to Calvary". Historians have gener- ally assumed Zinkovsky was a double agent since he later joined the GPU. Azarov suggests a different interpretation of Zinkovsky's strange career, in which he continued to pursue the anarchist dream even after Makhno's death.

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The leading personality of the Makhnovist Kontrrazvedka, although
not its actual chief, was Lev Zinkovsky. In the Soviet era he acquired
a sinister reputation, for example, through his depiction in Alexey
Tolstoy's potboiler "The Road to Calvary". Historians have gener-
ally assumed Zinkovsky was a double agent since he later joined
the GPU. Azarov suggests a different interpretation of Zinkovsky's
strange career, in which he continued to pursue the anarchist dream
even after Makhno's death.

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