Admitted to Germany despite lack of proper documents, he and his family lived in Berlin, where he wrote (in German) an 80-page pamphlet called "The Persecution of the Anarchists in Soviet Russia", translated Peter Arshinov's "History of the Makhnovist Movement" and wrote a long biographical preface for it. Together with Arshinov, he founded a magazine called "The Anarchist Herald" and along with other Russian exiles, they formed several committees to help their comrades imprisoned by the Bolshevik regime. After two years, Volin received an invitation from Sébastien Faure to help him prepare the "Encyclopédie Anarchiste", so he moved to Paris, where he wrote for the "Encyclopédie" and other publications.