Archives Ida Markovna Lazarevič (1921-) 1950-19751950-1975

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Archives Ida Markovna Lazarevič

Collection ID ARCH00803 Creator Lazarevič, Ida Markovna Other Creator(s) Lazarevič, Nikolaj. Period (1921-) 1950-19751950-1975 Period (bulk) 1950-1975 Extent 1.6 m. Language list English Language of Material Russian

Context

Biographical Note Ida Mett: pseudonym of Ida Lazarévitch-Gilman, born in Smorgon', Russia 1901, died in Paris 1973; militant anarchist; studied medicine; moved in libertarian circles in Moscow, was arrested 1924; managed to escape via Poland to Paris in 1925, where she helped to edit Delo Truda with Volin and Petr Aršinov 1925-1927; Nicolas Lazarévitch: born in Jupille-sur-Meuse, Belgium 1895, from Russian parents, died in Paris 1975; militant anarcho-syndicalist; abandoned his studies in 1911 and chose a worker's life; joined the Red Army 1919; imprisoned 1924, deported 1926; Mett and Lazarévitch met and became companions, while both working in the Delo Truda group in Paris 1926-1927; expelled from France 1928, they lived (apart from short periods in France and Spain) in Belgium till 1936, where they met Francisco Ascaso and Buenaventura Durruti; eventually they returned to Paris in 1936 where Lazarévitch was interned in 1939, Mett in 1940; in 1948 Mett's `La Commune de Cronstadt' was published and her `Souvenirs sur Nestor Makhno' in 1983.

Content and Structure

Content Letters to Ida Mett and Nicolas Lazarévitch (1934-) 1956-1974; manuscripts by Ida Mett; exercise booklets with notes by Ida Mett; exercise booklets with notes by Nicolas Lazarévitch; diaries of their relative Boris Wulfert-Pokitonov 1921-1963; the I. en N. Lazaréwitch papers were bought from Marc Lazaréwitch in Gagny, France, in 1988.

Subjects

Geographic Names USSR (former)

Persons Aršinov, Petr Andreevič Lazarevič, Nikolaj Durruti, Buenaventura Ascaso, Francisco

Themes

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Anarchist movements Exiles/Political refugees

Material Type Archival material

Access and Use

Access Not restricted

Preferred Citation Archives Ida Markovna Lazarevič , inventory number ..., International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

LIST

1 Letters to Ida Mett en N. Lazaréwitch . Photographs. 2 Manuscripts (probably) by Ida Mett . 3 Manuscripts by Ida Mett . "Dossier université" of Ida Mett (including a few personal data). 4 Exercise booklets with notes by Ida Mett . Exercise booklets with notes by N. Lazaréwitch . 5 Notes, etc., by N. Lazaréwitch. 6 Manuscripts by others. 7 Typescript of the memoirs of Nestor Machno (in French). Various translations, and articles copied from magazines. 8 Documentation. 9-10 Card-index boxes. 11 Letters and other documents of the Wulfert family. Diaries of Boris Wulfert 1921-1940. 12 Diaries 1940-c. 1963 and miscellanea of Boris Wulfert .

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