Lev Chernyi

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Jason McQuinn
, an American anarchist who wrote under the pseudonym Lev Chernyi during the 1980s.
Lev Chernyi
Лев Чёрный
activist
Known forRevolutionary anarchism

Lev Chernyi (Russian: Лев Чёрный, IPA:

counterfeiting
and in 1921 was executed without trial.

Early life, philosophy and imprisonment

Chernyi was born Pavel Dimitrievich Turchaninov to an army

Czarist regime for his revolutionary activities.[1]

Return to Moscow and opposition to the Bolsheviks

On his return from Siberia in 1917, Chernyi enjoyed great popularity among

Nicholas II and was primarily concerned with disseminating propaganda to Moscow's poorer classes.[2][5]

A personal acquaintance of Lev Kamenev and other leading Bolsheviks, Chernyi denounced the nascent Russian Soviet Republic at a rally on March 5, 1918, declaring that for anarchists, the socialist state was as much an enemy as its bourgeois predecessor and promising to "paralyze the governmental mechanism".[6] A vociferous advocate of seizing private homes,[2] Chernyi agitated against the state in the pages of Anarkhiia, the anarchist weekly newspaper, proposing increasingly detailed means of decentralized production and "complete absence of internal power structures".[6] In the spring of 1918, the anarchist groups within the Moscow Federation formed armed detachments in reaction to the growing repression of all resistance and free expression.[1] These were the Black Guards. On the night of April 11, the Cheka (Soviet secret police) raided the House of Anarchy, a building occupied by the Moscow Federation, with the official aim of arresting and charging "robber bands" in the anarchist ranks.[5] They were met with armed resistance by the Black Guards and in the ensuing battle, approximately forty anarchists were killed or wounded and about five hundred were imprisoned.[1]

Arrest and execution

Eminent Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin, who was wounded in the anarchist attack on the Moscow Communist Party headquarters

Having helped establish an underground group in 1918, Chernyi joined another group called the

trial. However, historian of anarchism Paul Avrich contends that Chernyi was executed in September of that year rather than August.[1] Although he was not personally involved in the bombing of the Communist Party headquarters, Chernyi was, because of his association with the Underground Anarchists, a likely candidate for a frameup. The Communists refused to turn over his body to his family for burial, and rumors persisted that he had in fact died of torture.[1]

Bibliography

  • Novoe napravlenie v anarkhizme: assotsiatsionnyi anarkhizm. 2nd edn, New York, 1923.
  • O klassakh. Moscow, 1924.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^
    The Match! (79). Archived from the original
    on 2008-02-11. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
  2. ^ a b c d e Avrich 2006, p. 180
  3. ^ Avrich 2006, p. 254
  4. ^ a b Chernyi, Lev (1923) [1907]. Novoe Napravlenie v Anarkhizme: Asosiatsionnii Anarkhism (Moscow; 2nd ed.). New York.
  5. ^
    S2CID 146156609
    . Retrieved 2008-03-10.
  6. ^
    ISBN 0-415-13914-7
    .
  7. ^ a b Avrich 2006, p. 188
  8. ISBN 0-8014-8618-1
    .

References
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