Juda Solomonovich Grossman was a Ukrainian revolutionary anarchist, journalist and literary critic.
11 Facts About Juda Grossman
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Juda Solomonovich Grossman was born into a Jewish merchant family in Kherson.
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From 1899, Juda lived in the town of Novoukrainka and was under police surveillance.
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Juda Grossman then moved onto Germany and Switzerland, where he collaborated with a group of anarcho-communists, was a member of the publishing group "Anarchy", defended the methods of terror and expropriation.
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In 1903, Juda Grossman visited Geneva and joined the local group of anarcho-communist emigrants, Bread and Freedom.
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Juda Grossman gave lectures to revolutionaries and called for the beginning of revolutionary terror in Russia, to raise money for the revolution through expropriation.
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Juda Grossman published the illegal newspaper Black Flag, in which he called on revolutionaries to terrorize and to organize bloody riots against the government.
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Juda Grossman acted as a supporter of the revolt, which could be caused by total terror, and was an opponent of anarcho-communism.
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Juda Grossman actively supported the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution, and in late 1917 - early 1918 organized the Bureau of Anarchists of the Donetsk Basin.
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In early 1919, Juda Grossman was one of the organizers of a group of "Soviet anarchists" who recognized the dictatorship of the Bolsheviks as necessary for the "transition period" to anarchism.
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Juda Grossman withdrew from anarchist activity following the suppression of the left-wing opposition to Bolshevik rule.