12 Facts About Efim Yarchuk

Efim Zakharovych Yarchuk was a Ukrainian Jewish anarcho-syndicalist.

Efim Yarchuk was deported from Russia and briefly resumed his publishing activities in exile, but in 1925, he was permitted to return to the Soviet Union, where he was executed during the Great Purge.

Efim Yarchuk was born in 1882, into a Jewish family, in the Ukrainian city of Berezne, where he worked as a tailor.

Efim Yarchuk settled in New York City, where he joined the anarcho-syndicalists of the Union of Russian Workers and wrote for its newspaper Golos Truda.

Efim Yarchuk returned from exile in the wake of the February Revolution of 1917.

Efim Yarchuk moved to Petrograd, where he continued his work with Golos Truda and was elected to the Petrograd Soviet.

Efim Yarchuk was delegated to the soviet on the island of Kronstadt, where he organised the local anarchist movement, as a member of the soviet's executive committee.

Efim Yarchuk was delegated to the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and led the Kronstadt soldiers in battle against Alexey Kaledin's Don Army.

However, this organisation would prove stillborn, and Efim Yarchuk himself was arrested by the Cheka that month.

Efim Yarchuk was released in January 1921 and joined the organisation committee for Peter Kropotkin's funeral, petitioning Vladimir Lenin to allow the release of imprisoned anarchists for the event.

Efim Yarchuk was arrested again during the events of the Kronstadt rebellion, which prevented him from participating in it.

In 1925, Efim Yarchuk applied for permission to return to the Soviet Union and join the Communist Party, which was granted by Nikolai Bukharin.