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26-488: Gordin may refer to: Surname Gordin [ edit ] Abba Gordin , (1887–1964) anarchist active in the Russian revolution Jacob Gordin , Russian-American playwright Michael D. Gordin (born 1974), American science historian and Slavist. Sidney Gordin (1918–1996), Russian-born American artist, professor Yehuda Leib Gordin , (1854–1925) Polish Rabbi who migrated to

52-471: A minority within the Universalist organization, resolved to establish a new ideology that they felt could better respond to the conditions the Russian anarchist movement found itself in. In the wake of Joseph Stalin 's rise to power, a number of Universalists were let out of prison under police surveillance , and Askarov was later arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation before disappearing during

78-476: A new socialist state , as the older anarchist methods had been defined by "a different environment, different circumstances and a different power structures". They argued that a centralized " dictatorship of the proletariat " was necessary for the transition to a stateless communist society , and advocated for Russian anarchists to collaborate with the Bolsheviks, ceasing all hostile activity in opposition to

104-439: A secular Hebrew school , "Ivria," where they experimented with a unique form of libertarian pedagogy . To teach a modern, secular Hebrew, they believed, required teaching methods that were concrete and active, involving the body. They founded their own publishing house, "Novaya Pedagogika" (New Pedagogy), to publish their theory and methodology. Migrating to Moscow with other refugees during World War I , he and Wolf (under

130-802: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Abba Gordin Abba Lvovich Gordin (1887–1964) was an Israeli anarchist and Yiddish writer and poet. Abba Gordin was born in 1887 in Smorgon (now in Belarus ) to Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gordin of Łomża and Khaye Ester Sore Gordin (née Miller). As a teenager, he organized a strike by apprentice tailors in Ostrów , disseminated radical propaganda in Kreslavka (Krāslava) and Dvinsk (Daugavpils) , and

156-635: The Great Purge . In the late 1920s, Abba Gordin emigrated to the United States, while Wolf Gordin, who had by this time fully converted to Bolshevism , was subjected to punitive psychiatry before being able to escape to the United States. The anarchist Alexander Berkman considered the Universalists to be "worse than crazy". The anarchist-turned-Bolshevik Victor Serge later praised the Universalists for condemning "the past errors of

182-639: The October Revolution . The organization began to grow rapidly, establishing branches in Bryansk , the Urals , Ryazan , Minsk , and Samara , while in their headquarters of Moscow they opened up a number of establishments including a conference hall , bookstore , restaurant , and a number of clubs . The organization was quickly joined by a number of new members that had a different anarchist political philosophy to that of its founders, which split

208-546: The taking over of industry , the unionizing of the workers of the land, and economic reorganization through the free cooperation of workers and peasants." A wave of repression against the anarchist movement soon followed, with the Universalist organizations being broken up by the Cheka , and replaced by the more obedient "Anarcho-Biocosmists", which pledged not to launch a social revolution on "Soviet territory" but instead in " interplanetary space ". The Biocosmists, previously

234-573: The "most visible spokesperson" among those anarchists who were "inclined to accept centralism and the dictatorship of the proletariat," had been imprisoned for three months in the notorious Butyrka prison "for the crime of having been elected to the Moscow Soviet by the workers of the factory where he worked": 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

260-687: The Bolshevik government, founding an " Anarchist-Universalist " 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 [it] necessary to participate in

286-803: The Bolshevik victory over the White movement during the Russian Civil War, the Universalists were in good standing with the Bolsheviks; by the time the Kronstadt rebellion broke out, they were supporting the Baltic Fleet mutineers, denouncing the suppression of the rebellion by the Red Army under Leon Trotsky . When the New Economic Policy was implemented, Askarov responded by calling Universalists to prepare "the unions for

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312-862: The Jewish Ethical Society. Gordin became a co-editor of the New York Yiddish-language anarchist journal Freie Arbeiter Stimme and editor of his own polemic periodical, The Clarion . By the early 1930s, Gordin had identified nationalism as a more prominent driver of modern history than social class conflict . He also critiqued Marxist doctrine as a "hybrid ... of quasi-religion and pseudo-science" that would depose one king for another. 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. Universalists (Russia) In August 1920,

338-649: The Soviet government. Their policy was noted by Paul Avrich as being similar to that of the Maximalists , a radical faction of the Socialist Revolutionaries , which split off and later joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) . In articles published in the organization's official organ The Universal , Askarov criticised the recent history of the Russian anarchist movement and called for anarchists to participate in

364-806: The US, father of Abba and Zeev Gordin In fiction [ edit ] A minor character in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gordin . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gordin&oldid=1097000866 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

390-481: The Universalists marked their transition "from anarchist Blanquism to the class struggle " and called for the anarchist participation in the soviets , where a number of Universalists including Askarov had already been elected. The Universalists declared themselves in support of the Communist International and their willingness to form a united front with other political parties that supported

416-596: The Universalists, leading to a minority faction around the Gordins being expelled from the organization, going onto name themselves the Anarchist-Universalist Association (inter-individualist) ( Russian : Организация анархистов-универсалистов (интериндивидуалистов) ) and publish the journal Through Socialism to Anarchism-Universalism . The two groups subsequently began to attack each other, with "insults, defamation, and violence". With

442-506: The brothers Abba Gordin and Wolf Gordin came together with German Askarov to found the tendency of "Anarcho-Universalism" within the Russian anarchist movement , as part of a broader trend of " Soviet anarchism", which supported the Bolsheviks. As part of their "different approach to the Soviet state ", they sought to define a new course of action for the anarchist movement to take under

468-568: The collective title of the "Brat'ya Gordinii," the Gordin Brothers) joined the editorial staff of the influential newspaper, Anarkhiia , published from 1917–1918. There, they published a series of works delineating the principles of "Pan-Anarchism," a form of anarchism intended to address the distinctive problems and aspirations of "the Oppressed Five": The "Oppressed Five" referred to those categories of humanity which endured

494-439: The construction of a new society, claiming that the Soviet state was a matter of fact. On the re-organization of the anarchist movement, the Universalists stressed the necessity of creating a "single, coherent organization, bound by firm self-discipline and which places itself on a defined revolutionary platform " and criticized the individualist anarchist model of small disorganized affinity groups . At their first Conference,

520-434: The election, but only with regard to this particular delegate, and not with regard to the communists who were elected during that same proceeding. After the election was repeated with the same result and subsequently nullified three times, Gordin was jailed and the munitions factory denied representation. Alexander Berkman reports that it was only on May 25, 1920, after some 1,500 Butyrka prisoners refused to eat, that Gordin

546-446: 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, 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

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572-532: 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"). As tensions mounted between Russian anarchists and Bolsheviks, Abba Gordin attempted to make peace with

598-431: 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 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

624-621: 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 Seventy Days In Russia: What I Saw (1924), Angel Pestaña , recounting his visit to Moscow in 1920, notes that Abba Gordin,

650-459: Was briefly imprisoned after taking part in the abortive revolution of 1905–1906 , having led demonstrators to storm the jail and free political prisoners in Vilkomir . He and his brother Wolf (Ze'ev) , who were at that time affiliated with the labor-Zionist youth movement Tseirei Tsion, broke from their father's religion after their mother's death in 1907. In 1908, Abba and Wolf Gordin opened

676-637: Was released "by order of the Tcheka , in the hope of breaking the hunger strike." 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. Abba Gordin emigrated to the United States in 1927 where he wrote books, essays, and poems in several languages. He later established

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