Perhaps you are right, perhaps we only got the history that complied with the goals of those that brought it forward.
Voline's The Unknown Revolution shows how those that became the 'communists' of Russia used the rhetoric of the anarchists to deceive the people into supporting them.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/voline-the-unknown-revolution-1917-1921-book-one-birth-growth-and-triumph-of-the-revolution