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178:" tendency among the anarchists that was willing to postpone the abolition of the State. A Communist Party Central Committee memo of 1921 noted that the All-Russian Section of Anarchist-Universalists was "one of the most peaceful in the Anarchist movement," as it "recognizes 'workers' parliamentarism' as represented by the Soviet government" and "finds necessary to participate in the work of the Soviet apparatus, to uphold the Red Army, the civil war and the dictatorship of the proletariat as the transitional form toward Anarchy." Nonetheless, both Gordin and the Anarchist-Universalists faced increasing government persecution. Observers attributed this persecution to Gordin's relative popularity among Russia's radical working class. In 170:
family – were held responsible for their sufferings. The Gordins worked out a philosophy which they called "Pan-Anarchism" and which prescribed five remedies for the five baneful institutions that tormented the five oppressed elements of modern society. The remedies for the state and capitalism were, simply enough, statelessness and communism; for the remaining three oppressors, however, the antidotes were rather more novel: "cosmism" (the universal elimination of national persecution), "gyneantropism" (the emancipation and humanization of women), and "pedism" (the liberation of the young from "the vise of slave education").
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the workers in the factory where Gordin worked chose him instead of the communist nominee. When the votes were counted at the Soviet headquarters, and it was discovered that a communist was not selected and that Gordin was chosen instead, the Soviet exercised its veto powers and annulled the election, but only with regard to this particular delegate, and not with regard to the communists who were elected during that same proceeding.
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The "Oppressed Five" referred to those categories of humanity which endured the greatest hardships under the yoke of Western civilization: "worker-vagabond," national minority, woman, youth, and individual personality. Five basic institutions – the state, capitalism, colonialism, the school, and the
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Gordin was a worker in a munitions factory. When the elections for the Soviet of the district that his factory belonged to were held, despite the fact that the communists always allowed only their nominees on the election list for the Soviet and did not allow any of their candidates to be defeated,
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In 1925, speaking at a public event, Abba Gordin was shot and then arrested by the Cheka; only the personal intercession of Lenin's wife won his release. Abba and his wife, Voronina, fled across the Manchurian border, making their way to Shanghai.
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Abba Gordin emigrated to the United States in 1927 where he wrote books, essays, and poems in several languages. He later established the Jewish Ethical Society. Gordin became a co-editor of the New York Yiddish-language anarchist journal
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Religiöser Nonkonformismus und Radikale Yidishkayt. Abba Gordin (1887–1964) und die Prozesse der Gemeinschaftsbildung in der jiddisch-anarchistischen Wochenschrift Fraye Arbeter Shtime 1937–1945 (DPhil)
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Anarkhizm-Universalizm v Kontekste Russkoy "Kosmicheskoy Paradigmy" Nachala XX Veka [Anarchism-Universalism In the Context of the Russian "Cosmic Paradigm" of the Early Twentieth Century]
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Religiöser Nonkonformismus und Radikale Yidishkayt. Abba Gordin (1887–1964) und die Prozesse der Gemeinschaftsbildung in der jiddisch-anarchistischen Wochenschrift Fraye Arbeter Shtime 1937–1945
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After the election was repeated with the same result and subsequently nullified three times, Gordin was jailed and the munitions factory denied representation.
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He emigrated to Israel around 1957, where he translated his Yiddish writing into Hebrew. Gordin died in Tel Aviv in 1964. Services were held August 23.
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As tensions mounted between Russian anarchists and Bolsheviks, Abba Gordin attempted to make peace with the Bolshevik government, founding an "
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reports that it was only on May 25, 1920, after some 1,500 Butyrka prisoners refused to eat, that Gordin was released "by order of the
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and Khaye Ester Sore Gordin (née Miller). As a teenager, he organized a strike by apprentice tailors in
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Pepel nashikh kostrov: ocherki istorii evreiskogo anarkhistskogo dvizheniia: idish-anarkhizm
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Deklaratsiya Moskovskoy organizatsii anarkho-universalistov: K vos'momu s"yezdu Sovetov
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intended to address the distinctive problems and aspirations of "the Oppressed Five":
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In gerangl far frayhayt bukh ayns: Rusland 1773–75, bukh tsvay: Rusland 1917–1919
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The Guillotine at Work: Twenty Years of Terror in Russia (Data and Documents)
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Sotsiomagiya i sotsiotekhnika, ili Obshcheznakharstvo i obshchestroitel'stvo
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Zikhroynes un khezsboynes (memuarn fun der rusisher revolutsye 1917–1924)
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Nedava, Joseph (1974). "Abba Gordin: A portrait of a Jewish anarchist".
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The Russian Word in the Land of Israel, the Jewish Word in Russia
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Printsipn un tsvekn-derklerung fun der yidishe etisher gezelshaft
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Der yung-mentsh oder der finf-bund: a dramatishe shir in 5 akten
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Gordin, Abba; Gordin, Wolf (2019). Kuchinov, Evgeniy (ed.).
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Pedagogika molodezhi ili Reproduktina. Ch. 1: Kritika shkoly
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Heller, Leonid (1996). "Voyage au pays de l'anarchie ".
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Smorgonie, District Vilna; Memorial Book and Testimony
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Yidish lebn in Amerike (in shpigl fun F. Bimkos verk)
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Sistema Material’noy i Otnositel’noy Yestestvennosti
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Anarkhiia v Mechte: Strana Anarkhiia: Utopiia-poema
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Sh. Yanovsky (1864–1939): zayn lebn, kemfn un shafn
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Tel Aviv
Smorgon
Belarus
Yehuda Leib Gordin
Łomża
Ostrów
Kreslavka (Krāslava)
Dvinsk (Daugavpils)
revolution of 1905–1906
Vilkomir
Wolf (Ze'ev)
Hebrew school
libertarian pedagogy
Moscow
World War I
Anarkhiia
anarchism
Anarchist-Universalist
Angel Pestaña
Butyrka prison
Alexander Berkman
Tcheka
Freie Arbeiter Stimme
class conflict
Deklaratsiya Moskovskoy organizatsii anarkho-universalistov: K vos'momu s"yezdu Sovetov (1921)
Interindividualizm (1922)
Egotika: Stikhi (1922)
Communism Unmasked (1940)
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