Ida Mett
Ida Lazarévitch-Gilman (born July 20, 1901 in Smarhon near Minsk , as Ida Gilman , † June 27, 1973 in Paris ), known as Ida Mett , was a Russian revolutionary and communist anarchist .
biography
Ida Gilman was born on July 20, 1901 in Smarhon (Russian Smorgon ) in Tsarist Russia (now Belarus). Her father was a clothes dealer and she had many siblings. After studying medicine, Ida Mett went to Moscow, where she came into contact with the anarchist movement during the October Revolution of 1917 . In 1924 she was arrested by the new Bolshevik regime on charges of “anti-Soviet activities”. In 1925 she escaped to Paris via Poland and Berlin. Together with Volin , Peter Arshinoff and Nestor Machno she edited the magazine Dielo Truda . The group around Machno and Arshinoff published an organizational platform written by the latter in October 1926, which was intended to initiate a reorganization of the anarchist movement, but which triggered an increasingly bitter discussion in the anarchist movement and, by some, as a betrayal of the liberal principles of anarchism and as one Kind of "anarcho-bolshevism" was seen. Volin and other well-known anarchists, such as B. Alexander Berkman , Rudolf Rocker and Errico Malatesta rejected the platform.
In Dielo Truda's group , Ida Mett met her partner Nicolas Lazarevitch , with whom she edited La Liberation Syndicale . These activities resulted in both of them being expelled from France in 1928. They went to Belgium, where Nicolas Lazarevitch, son of Russian parents, was born near Liège . In Belgium they both met the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists Francisco Ascaso and Buenaventura Durruti , at whose invitation Mett, Lazarevitch and Volin spent a long time in Spain in 1931. Ida Mett reported in the magazine La Révolution prolétarienne , edited by Pierre Monatte , about her experiences in pre-revolutionary Barcelona.
1936 returned Mett and Lazarevitch illegally returned to France, where Ida Mett 1938 her famous book La Commune de Cronstadt (dt. The municipality of Brasov , 1971) about the Kronstadt Rebellion wrote. In 1940 he was imprisoned in France. With the help of their friend Boris Souvarine , they managed to stay with their son Marc as refugees in France under surveillance . From 1948 to 1951 Ida Mett worked as a doctor in a medical clinic for Jewish children. Until the end of her life she worked in the chemical industry as a technical translator.
The time of the occupation of France by Nazi Germany and the Second World War delayed the publication of her book on The Kronstadt Commune by 10 years until it could appear in the Edition Spartacus in Paris in 1948. Your book is an important defense of the Kronstadt sailors' slogan: "All power to the councils, not to the party!" And of liberal socialism against the arbitrary rule of the Bolsheviks, deliberately analogous to the Paris Commune of 1871.
Works
- Ida Mett, Johannes Agnoli , Cajo 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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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mett, Ida |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lazarevitch-Gilman, Ida |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Smarhon (Smorgon), Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1973 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |