Today in Labor History August 11, 1882: Russian anarchist Volin (Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum) was born. He was forced into exile for his revolutionary activities during the 1905 Russian Revolution, for his participation in the Petersburg Soviet and the 1905 Kronstadt uprising that occurred in solidarity with the Peterburg Soviet. He returned during the 1917 revolution, where he criticized the Bolsheviks, before fleeing to Ukraine, where he became a leading figure in the autonomous, anarchist commune of Makhnovshchina. In 1920, the Cheka arrested him, with an execution order from Trotsky. Alexander Berkman, who had been deported to the USSR by the U.S., and writer Victor Serge, both appealed for his release. He was released later that year, then arrested again the following year, and deported, 1922, by Lenin. He lived the rest of his life in exile in time to France, where he died from tuberculosis, in 1945, after having successfully evaded arrest by the Nazis for his radical politics and his Jewish heritage.
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