Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Tsakanin 1918 da 1921 an daure shi a kalla sau shida da Bolsheviks. A shekara ta 1919, da son rai ya shiga cikin Red Army don yaƙar fararen fararen fararen fararen fata, amma an daure shi a Kharkiv saboda ya ƙi hana ma'aikata aiki da kuma dakatar da zanga-zanga. A ranar 8 ga Maris, 1921, a lokacin tashin hankalin Kronstadt
, an kama shi a Moscow ta Cheka, tare da sauran membobin kungiyar Nabat. An kulle Maximoff a kurkukun Taganka, inda aka yanke masa hukuncin kisa saboda yada farfagandar anarcho-syndicalist. Bayan yajin cin abinci, a watan Disamba na 1921 ya yi nasarar jawo hankalin ma'aikatan da ke ziyartar taron Red Trade Union. Sakamakon matsin lamba daga al'ummar kasa da kasa, an sake shi da wasu 'yan tawaye 10 daga kurkuku kuma an kore su daga kasar.