Volin participated in the publication of Dielo Truda (Causa Obrera), as part of the "Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad". However, following the publication of the controversial Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists in 1926, Volin broke with Nestor Makhno and Peter Arshinov. The bitter dispute marked a deep divide within the Russian anarchist movement in exile. In 1927 Volin founded the "Association des Fédéralistes Anarchistes", a synthesist organization, and after several rearrangements of the French anarchist organizations, in 1934 he joined the editorial staff of "Terre Libre". From there he published criticism of the CNT's collaboration with the Popular Front and participation in the government of the Second Spanish Republic.