28 Facts About Daniil Novomirskii

Daniil Novomirskii went to school in Odesa and studied Law in Paris.

Daniil Novomirskii took on the pseudonym of Daniil Novomirskii.

Daniil Novomirskii was arrested in February 1904, convicted but freed on bail in September 1904, and emigrated, becoming an anarchist while in exile.

Daniil Novomirskii thene shuttled back and forth between Odessa and abroad until 1907.

Daniil Novomirskii was quickly disillusioned by the group's advocacy of terrorism as a lifestyle, which he believed would alienate the working classes from their cause.

Daniil Novomirskii later recalled that, during a lecture he gave on behalf of the group at Odesa University, students had been surprised to find out that anarchists had a coherent worldview, as they previously believed they were "simply another kind of pogromist".

Daniil Novomirskii was involved in a number of bank robberies.

In December 1905, Daniil Novomirskii witnessed the Chernoe Znamia's bombing of the Cafe Libman in Odesa, noting the negative reaction of workers in the crowd, some of whom speculated it to have been the work of agent provocateurs.

Daniil Novomirskii warned that if anarchists continued to pursue such tactics, they would only alienate the masses, and their members would end up like the executed leaders of Narodnaya Volya.

Daniil Novomirskii instead called for anarchists to agitate in factories and organise trade unions, which themselves would be capable of carrying out "economic terror" against the bourgeoisie, in the form of strike actions, boycotts and expropriations.

Daniil Novomirskii distinguished himself from the French syndicalists, believing that a new model for syndicalism was needed in order to fit the specific conditions in Eastern Europe.

From Odesa, Daniil Novomirskii established the South Russian Group of Anarcho-Syndicalists.

Daniil Novomirskii's efforts were so successful that he convinced Juda Grossman that "God, if he existed, must be a syndicalist".

Daniil Novomirskii himself was among those that were arrested and imprisoned in forced labour camps.

Daniil Novomirskii was arrested in 1907, convicted and sentenced to an eight year prison term.

Daniil Novomirskii served two years in Odesa and the remainder in the Butyrki prison in Moscow up until 1915.

Daniil Novomirskii was then banished to a town in Irkutsk province in Siberia.

Avrich says that in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917, Daniil Novomirskii was released from the forced labour camp which he had been imprisoned in for over a decade.

Daniil Novomirskii joined the Communist Party was appointed as an official of the nascent Communist International.

Daniil Novomirskii became disillusioned with the Communist Party because of the implementation of the New Economic Policy, which he viewed as turning back the gains of the revolution.

Daniil Novomirskii resigned from the party and dedicated himself to scholarship, as a contributor for the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

Daniil Novomirskii proposed that class struggle and not mutual aid should be the central principle of anarchists: trade unions should carry out the dual role of struggling for improvements to working conditions while preparing workers for a social revolution, in which the unions would act as the nucleus for a post-revolutionary society.

Daniil Novomirskii distinguished himself from other anarcho-syndicalists in rejecting Westernization, cautioning against replicating Western European models of trade unionism in the Russian Empire.

Daniil Novomirskii was publicly critical of the terrorist tactics advocated by the other anarchist schools.

Daniil Novomirskii denounced practitioners of "propaganda of the deed" and insurgent organisations such as the Chernoe Znamia, as he believed revolutionary change could only be brought about by the masses, not by small isolated insurgent groups.

Daniil Novomirskii justified this inconsistency by claiming that their actions benefited the whole movement, which distinguished it from the practitioners of "motiveless terror".

Daniil Novomirskii was critical of intellectualism within the syndicalist movement, denouncing syndicalist theoreticians that had never worked a day in their lives for "put[ting] abstract ideas above living human beings".

Daniil Novomirskii cautioned workers against seeking "saviours" from the upper classes, believing that "the liberation of the workers must be the task of the working class itself".