Ida Mett

Ida Mett (1901-1973) was a Russian born anarchist and author.

Ida Mett (born Gilman) was born on 20th July 1901 at Smorgon, in what is now Belarus. A frequent participant in the Russian anarchist movement in Moscow, arrested by Soviet authorities for subversive activities and escaped soon thereafter from Russia to Poland, later Berlin, and eventually to Paris (1926) where she became active with Dielo Trouda Group and co-edited the magazine of the same name.

Mett wrote The Kronstadt Commune, a history of the rebellion at Kronstadt, in 1948. Published by the Spartacus publishing house and subsuequently re-awakened controversy over the events. Also authored The Russian Peasant in the Revolution and Post Revolution, 1968. She also contributed to various international periodicals. She died in Paris on 27th June 1973.

publications

• The Kronstadt Commune" 1948
• The Russian Peasant in the Revolution and Post Revolution' 1968
• Medicine in the USSR 1953
• The Soviet School 1954