Ida Mett

Ida Lazarevitch - Gilman ( born July 20, 1901 in Smarhon in Minsk, as Ida Gilman, † June 27, 1973 in Paris ), known as Ida Mett, was a Russian revolutionary and communist anarchist.

Biography

Ida Gilman (now Belarus ) born on July 20, 1901 in Smarhon (Russian Smorgon ) in Tsarist Russia. Her father was a clothier and she had many siblings. After studying medicine Ida Mett went to Moscow, where they came into contact with the anarchist movement during the October Revolution of 1917. In 1924 she was asked by the new Bolshevik regime with the accusation " anti-Soviet activities " under arrest, Poland and Berlin, she got on her flight to Paris in 1925. Together with Volin, Peter Nestor Makhno Arschinoff and they published the magazine Dielo Truda. The group led by Makhno and Arschinoff published a in October 1926, written by the latter organization platform that should initiate a reorganization of the anarchist movement, but triggered an increasingly rancorous debate in the anarchist movement, and by some as a betrayal of the liberal principles of anarchism and as a kind of " anarcho- Bolshevism " was seen. Volin and other well-known anarchists, such as Alexander Berkman, Rudolf Rocker, and Errico Malatesta, rejected the platform.

In the group of Dielo Truda Ida Mett learned her partner Nicolas Lazarevitch, with whom she edited La Liberation Syndicale. These activities led in 1928 to the fact that both were expelled from France. They went to Belgium, where Nicolas Lazarevitch, son of Russian parents, was born in Liege. In Belgium, both learned the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists Buenaventura Durruti and Francisco Ascaso know, on invitation by Mett, Lazarevitch and Volin 1931 spent some time in Spain. Ida Mett reported in the journal La Revolution Proletarinne, edited by Pierre Monatte, about their experiences in pre-Revolutionary Barcelona.

1936 returned Mett and Lazarevitch illegally returned to France, where Ida Mett her famous 1938 book La Commune de Cronstadt (Eng. The Kronstadt Commune, 1971) wrote about the Kronstadt mutiny. In 1940, the imprisonment in France. With the help of her friend Boris Souvarine they managed to stay with the son Marc as refugees under observation in France. From 1948 to 1951 Ida Mett worked as a doctor in a mental hospital for Jewish children. By the end of her life she worked in the chemical industry as a technical translator.

Works

  • Ida Mett, Johannes Agnoli, Caio Brendel: The revolutionary actions of the Russian workers and peasants: The Kronstadt Commune. Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-87956-009-9
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