Lazarevich Nikolay Ivanovich

Lazarevich Nikolay Ivanovich

Genus. in 1895 in Jupille-sur-Meuse (Belgium) in a family of Narodnaya Volya emigrants; Russian; member of Belgian anarchist and workers' organizations since 1914. In 1918–1921 he conducted underground revolutionary work in various European countries, participated in the armed struggle against Italian fascists, and was arrested by the Dutch, French (in Odessa), Romanian, and Italian authorities. From 1921 he lived in Moscow. Ever since the October Revolution, he collaborated closely with the Bolsheviks, worked in the apparatus of the Comintern, but under the influence of the persecution of anarchists, he stood in opposition to Soviet power. In 1924 he lived in Moscow, a student at the Institute of Electrical Engineers; arrested on 10/07/1924 for creating an anarcho-syndicalist group in Moscow factories; sentenced by the OS at the Kogpu on December 12, 1924 to 3 years in a concentration camp, sent to the Suzdal political isolation ward. As a result of the international protest campaign, by the decision of the OS at the Kogpu dated July 31, 1926, the case was reviewed, the penalty was changed to expulsion from the USSR; 09/31/1926 transported abroad. Living in France, he was a member of anarcho-syndicalist trade unions and the “Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad”, for some time he was a supporter of the “Platform” of P.A. Arshinov and N.I. Makhno, collaborated in the magazine “Delo Truda”, editor of the magazine “Liberation” trade unions" (1928), an active participant in protest campaigns against the persecution of revolutionaries in Russia and in support of Sacco and Vanzetti. In 1928 he was deported to Belgium, where he was repeatedly arrested for participating in anarcho-syndicalist and anti-war activities. He continued to work in the Anarchist Black Cross organizations and was a delegate to the congresses of the International Workers' Association. In 1934 he founded the magazine "Le Réveil syndicaliste". In 1936 he returned to France illegally. Worked as a proofreader in a publishing house. He refused to participate in World War II and was sent to a camp, from which he escaped. After the war he returned to Paris and resumed his work as a proofreader. In 1950–1958 he collaborated with the magazine “La Réalité russe”. In 1955–1956 in Paris he led the Circle for the Study of Russia and made presentations at its meetings. He published the books in Paris: “Ce que j'ai vécu en Russie” (“That I lived in Russia”) (1926), “Tu peux tuer cet homme, scènes de la vie révolutionnaires russes” (“You can do this man to kill, scenes from Russian revolutionary life") (1950), "A travers les revolutions espagnoles" ("Through the Spanish revolutions") (1972). Died in Paris in 1975. Rehabilitated in the 1924 case by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation on 03/09/1994.