Ida Mett

Belarusian-born anarchist, syndicalist and author. Member of the Dielo Truda (Дело Труда / Workers' Cause) group from 1925 to 1928. Author of 'The Kronstadt Uprising' (1921) and 'The Russian Peasant in the Revolution and Post Revolution' (1968) amongst others.

She studied medicine in Kharkov and Moscow, where he began his involvement with anarchist circles and where he was arrested for performing subversive and anti-Soviet activities. In 1924, to avoid prison, he went into exile in Poland. In 1925, he went to Paris, where he maintained contacts with other Russian anarchists emigrated as Volin, Archinof and Nicolas Lazarévitch, all members of the People's Will group. In 1926, together with Makhno, Archinov, Valevsky and Linsky, Ida participated in the creation and drafting of the Organizational Platform for a General Union of Anarchists, a document signed by the Dielo Truda Group (Worker Cause), title of the organ of the Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad, a newspaper in which Ida Mett performed editorial tasks. It also helped in the correction of Nestor Makhno's memoirs in 1926 and 1927. In 1928, Ida along with his companion Nicolas were excluded from the Dielo Truda Group, accused of performing religious rites for having ascended a cyrium at the Ida father's funeral ceremony, as was customary in the Jewish community. Ida and Nicolás began, in France, Belgium and Switzerland, a campaign of denunciation and information about the living conditions in which the working class lived in Russia. She edited the newspaper La Libérationsyndicale until they were expelled from France in 1928. They went to Belgium to attend anarchist circles, becoming friends of Spanish anarchists who were in exile, among them Francisco Ascaso and Buenaventura Durruti. In 1931, She returned to Belgium; in 1933, they founded, with Jean De Boë, the newspaper Le Réveilsyndicaliste. In 1936 he illegally returned to France. In 1940 she and comrade Nicolas Lazarévitch are arrested. In 1941, thanks to Boris Souvarine's speeches, they were put free (guarded). Ida remained in France until her death.

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