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The Sunset of the ACT® and SAT®?
The writing may be on the wall for the ACT® and SAT®. It seems the University of California system is considering dropping ACT® and SAT® scores in its process of admission. This is big news.
Or is it just the same old story? Forgive my cynicism but I've heard the talk now for some time. For years, The National Center for Fair and Open Testing has led the charge to remove standardized tests from the college admission process. It has cited various studies that show how the ACT® and SAT® are only marginally effective in predicting student performance in college. So why are these tests still a big part of college admission process for many universities? Because—arguably—large, competitive and selective universities need a standardized measurement to identify those students more qualified to succeed at large, competitive and selective universities. Some universities are considering the Smarter Balanced test as an alternative. Perhaps this test will offer a better assessment or maybe it will just be more of the same: those with access to test resources will perform better than those without. The cynic in me says the sunset of the ACT® and SAT® is still far off in the distance. Too much is at stake for everyone involved, most notably the companies behind the tests. The College Board (SAT®) generates about $1B annually, about half of which comes from the SAT®. ACT, Inc. (ACT®) generates about $350M annually. With so much money at stake, odds are these two organizations will fight to hold onto their tests as they have for years. But if the UCs indeed drop ACT® and SAT® scores in the admission process, perhaps the National Center for Fair and Open Testing will have pushed the entire U.S. university system to a tipping point. Maybe the end is near for the ACT® and SAT® and the future is the Smarter Balanced test. In which case, CROSSWALK will start working on how to prepare students for the Smarter Balanced test in an effort to do our part to help students achieve their academic goals. In the mean time, feel free to contact CROSSWALK for your ACT® and SAT® preparation and other academic tutoring. CROSSWALK is the Monterey Peninsula's local resource for test prep and academic tutoring.
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Of course I would, though. I love the Chicks and will always. There is no doubt that it is a promotional piece for their big comeback but… (oh and I am also the queen of ellipses) it is also their chance to say what they want unabashedly.
There were a few times when band members would whine about the *possible* eventuality of not being able to keep up their lifestyles and it was difficult to feel sorry for them seeing that I will never be in their shoes… but having said that, I am sure I would be whining every bit as much and possibly more if I WERE in their shoes (or boots).
This film was only playing in one theatre in all of the Lower Mainland: 5th Ave Cinemas.
This turned out to be a gem!
It reminded me of a few theatres in Toronto that I loved to go to. This is where I'll find the indie and rep films in Vancouver. There is a membership so you can get a discout if you support them for $12/year. They also sell reasonably priced treats including white popcorn (not the yellow stuff in typical theatres) and they have real butter… none of the chemical "topping" or margarine that I avoid elsewhere. They also sell organic fruit, sandwhiches, nuts and other stuff. The seating was comfortable and there are balconies!
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Der Tas () ist ein 1401 km langer Fluss im Norden von Westsibirien.

Er entspringt im Osten des Westsibirischen Tieflands und fließt von dort in nördlichen bis nordwestlichen Richtungen durch ausgedehnte Sumpflandschaften, überquert den nördlichen Polarkreis und mündet bei Tasowski in den Tasbusen. Dieser nimmt von Westen auch den Pur auf und mündet schließlich in den Obbusen.

Die bedeutendsten Nebenflüsse sind Tschasselka und Tolka von links sowie Bolschaja Schirta (Große Schirta), Chudossei und Russkaja von rechts.

Das durchflossene Einzugsgebiet von 150.000 km² ist nur sehr dünn besiedelt: dort leben nur knapp 15.000 Menschen (entsprechend 0,01 Einwohner/km²), überwiegend konzentriert auf wenige, unmittelbar am Tas liegende Ortschaften. Der Tas durchfließt den Krasnoselkupski rajon mit den Dörfern Ratta, Kikkiakki, Tolka und dem Verwaltungssitz Krasnoselkup sowie den Südteil des nach ihm benannten Tasowski rajon mit dem Dorf Gas-Sale und der Siedlung Tasowski. Das Gebiet am Ober- und Mittellauf des Tas mit dem nach ihnen benannten Krasnoselkupski rajon ist eines der Siedlungsgebiete der kleinen Ethnie der Selkupen: Von insgesamt gut 4000 lebt dort etwa ein Drittel.

Etwa 175 km Luftlinie oberhalb der Mündung und 100 km nördlich (flussabwärts) des heutigen Krasnoselkup befand sich am rechten Ufer des Tas im 17. Jahrhundert eine der ersten russischen Städte in Sibirien, Mangaseja. Etwa 40 km unterhalb von Krasnoselkup sollte die Polarkreiseisenbahn Salechard – Igarka den Fluss kreuzen, an der ab 1947 gebaut wurde. Von dem teilweise fertiggestellten, 1953 aufgegebenen Bauvorhaben sind in Flussnähe Überreste erhalten. Insbesondere das Gebiet am Unterlauf des Tas ist mit der Erkundung und Ausbeutung von Erdgasvorkommen ab den 1970er-Jahren wirtschaftlich interessant geworden.

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Q: using set to extract a matched pattern using ' as pattern separator I'm just not getting my head around the pattern matching in sed, what is worse, there are quotes as separators.
I do:
 cat file | grep \'*.s\'

and get:
'PhaseRayA:      '       'sca/sca_out/sc_ray_a.s'
'PhaseRayO:      '       'sca/sca_out/sc_ray_o.s'

as output. An now I want to extract the:
sca/sca_out/sc_ray_a
sca/sca_out/sc_ray_o.s.s

So my pattern would be '*.s', with the quotes being part of the pattern but not part of the wanted result.
Any ideas on that? I guess sed will du the job but have no clue how...
Thanks for any help...
All the best, André

A: Your question is a little ambiguous, but this should do what I think you mean:
sed -e "s/'[^']*' *'//" -e "s/'//" file

A: You might want to consider awk:
$ cat test.txt
'PhaseRayA:      '       'sca/sca_out/sc_ray_a.s'
'PhaseRayO:      '       'sca/sca_out/sc_ray_o.s'

$ awk -F "'" '{print $4}' test.txt
sca/sca_out/sc_ray_a.s
sca/sca_out/sc_ray_o.s

I tend to use sed to edit files and awk to process them. awk is built for breaking up records.

A: Give this a try:
sed "s/.*'\([^']*\)'/\1/" inputfile

Similarly:
sed 's/.*\o47\([^\o47]*\)\o47/\1/' inputfile    # that's the letter "o" between the backslash and the 4

or
sed 's/.*\x27\([^\x27]*\)\x27/\1/' inputfile

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Galaxy S7 Release Date Possibilities
Last few months for the Samsung was not that great in terms of sales. However the new series Galaxy Alpha is getting good response. But the overall sales of Samsung are falling and on other hand, the big rival Apple has made the amazing profits. It seems like, Apple wants to eat the big share of phablet market. But still the sales of Galaxy Note series is better than that of Galaxy S. Soon, everything would be changed as in the 3rd week of March, Samsung is going to release the Galaxy S6. And here if we talk about the Galaxy S7 release date then logically it should be after 1 year to the release of S6.
The logical and statistical Samsung Galaxy S7 release date is of course the first quarter of 2016, but the competition pressure and the arrival of new smartphone brands like Xiaomi, OnePlus and other Chinese brands are eating the share of big brands as of Samsung. The year 2014 was not good for Sony as well. The decline in sales of Sony smartphones is obviously the competition. If we believe, that Samsung Galaxy S7 release date to be occur in December 2015, then would it improve the Samsung's State in the market, would it be profitable for Samsung. Or the life span of Galaxy S6 would decrease if S7 would launch in 2015. Well, these all are the questions buzzing the minds of experts.
But the probability of launching another S device in 2015 is pretty low. And we should not assume or expect the early launch of Galaxy S7. Let the Samsung take good time to make the revolutionary phone for us. But this time, Samsung should not repeat the small mistakes it does every time with the new launch. Although metal smartphone series of Samsung is Galaxy Alpha but we all fans want to see metal frame in the Samsung Galaxy S series too.
Let's see if Samsung will stands on the expectations of Samsung S7 specs or not and to read more updates on the Samsung Galaxy S7 release date, stay tuned to this blog, or subscribe to receive all latest updates and news.
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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has ruled that class action waivers in employment arbitration agreements do not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, No. 16-285; Ernst & Young LLP et al. v. Morris et al., No. 16-300; and National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., et al., No. 16-307 (May 21, 2018).
This is significant for employees, especially executives to read your employment contract carefully upon offer to understand how your right to sue is being limited by arbitration clauses and class action waivers.
For employers the rulings are also relevant in that it can be used to limit your organization's exposure to litigation through expertly drafted arbitration agreements.


LONDON (AP) - "Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have pledged to help the last survivor of the sinking of the ocean liner.
The stars say they have thrown their support behind a fund that would subsidize Millvina Dean's nursing home fees.
Dean was 2 months old when the Titanic sank beneath the waves on the night of April 14, 1912. She has been living at a nursing home in the English city of Southampton since she broke her hip about three years ago but has struggled to pay the fees.
In October she sold several Titanic mementoes to raise cash.
DiCaprio and Winslet said in a statement that they hoped Dean could rest easier knowing that her future was secure. The Millvina Fund was launched Monday in Belfast, Northern Ireland.


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Vector est un constructeur automobile américain de voiture de sport initié par , un américain diplômé de l'Art Center College of Design, décidé à concurrencer les sportives italiennes.

Historique

En 1972, Wiegert présente un concept car non fonctionnel (sans moteur) au Salon de l'automobile de Los Angeles.

En 1978, il présente la W2 (« W » pour Wiegert et « 2 » pour le nombre de turbos). Le premier prototype roulant est produit en 1979, propulsé par un moteur V8 Chevrolet de  développant plus de . Photographié par de nombreux magazines spécialisés sous différentes couleurs (le prototype a été repeint à plusieurs reprises) cet unique modèle fera l'objet de tests par le magazine Motor Trend, ou l'émission anglaise .

David Kostka, le bras droit de Wiegert, est chargé du développement de la W8 Twin Turbo, évolution finale de la W2. Sa production par la Vector Aeromotive Corporation nouvellement créée débute en 1989. Construite à 19 exemplaires la W8 est mise en vente en , au prix de .

Suivra l'Avtech WX-3 (AWX-3), une étude qui restera à l'état de prototype. Sur un châssis en fibre de carbone, epoxy, et nid d'abeille Nomex, trois niveaux de motorisation étaient prévus, du V8 de base développant  au Twin-turbo de  en passant par une version « améliorée » développant . Le prototype de la WX-3C (coupé) et un prototype d'une version roadster, l'AWX-3R sont présentés au salon de Genève 1993.

La même année, frôlant la faillite et dans l'incapacité de lancer la production de l'AWX-3, Gerald A Wiergert doit vendre au groupe Indonésien , lequel déménage l'entreprise de la Californie à Green Cove Springs, en Floride. Megatech abandonne immédiatement la production de la W8 Twin Turbo et, en 1995, reprend la production d'une Vector sous le nom de . Megatech étant alors propriétaire de Lamborghini, la M12 est la première voiture américaine équipée d'un V12 d'origine Lamborghini : la voiture est en fait construite sur une base de Lamborghini Diablo (châssis et moteur) sur laquelle on a posé une carrosserie en fibre de verre. Le prix, , est revu à la baisse.

Vector est revendue en 1997 à Tradelink International Limited, un groupe américain spécialisé dans les produits de luxe en tout genre et souhaitant faire de la Vector son produit phare.

Quatorze Vector M12 seront construites de 1995 à 1999, plus quatre en pré-production dont deux ont été engagées dans des courses IMSA américaines.

La compagnie prévoit un nouveau modèle, la Vector SRV8 pour l'année 2000. Conçue sur la base de la M12 mais avec un 8-cylindres Chevrolet de  et quelques retouches esthétiques, le prototype (une des M12 de course reconditionnée) est présenté par Timothy Enright, PDG de la marque, au mois de juin de cette même année. La production ne verra jamais le jour.

En 2007, Gerald A. Wiergert expose un nouveau concept car, la Vector AWX-8, au LA Auto Show. Le projet propose deux motorisations : un V8 de  et une version V8 big block de  de cylindrée équipée d'un double turbo. Sans suite.
Le 15 janvier 2021, Gerald A. Wiergert est décédé.

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Constructeur automobile ayant son siège aux États-Unis
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I'll share my reasons why I Jasper National Park is one of my favourites, with first-hand experience when I visited the park, including it's cool Athabasca Glacier (pun intended).
First off, I'd like to say that Jasper National park is absolutely Stunning. There are amazing Waterfalls, Hotsprings, Rapids, the Athabasca Glacier and more.
Upon entering Jasper, my brother and I were greeted by the entry booths, which charge about $20 per car just for a day pass into the park. If you plan to camp, expect to pay between $15 and $38 dollars per night extra on top of the day fee.
After the entry booths though, we came and were greeted by a male elk with several females grazing along the side of the highway along with plenty of pulled over cars and tourists taking pictures of these amazing creatures. One brave tourist even walked closer to the male elk and nearly got charged!
Jasper National Park is not the kind of place where you will save money, but the views are spectacular.
In the middle of the park there is the town of Jasper which is surrounded by mountains on all sides, meaning that everywhere you look the view is fabulous.
· Self register camp areas such as at Pocahontas near Miette Hotsprings, or camping by the Icefield centre are cheaper camp areas. They have fewer facilities, but taps and outhouses are all that are really necessary (in my opinion). The view from the Icefield camp area is of the Athabasca glacier, which is quite beautiful, however the ice makes the area much chillier than other camp areas in Jasper National Park.
· Full Service- Other camp areas such as Wilcox creek offer kitchen shelters and trailer sewage disposal for campers and RV's.
The more services the campground offers, the more expensive the camping.
There are around 10 different camp areas with walk-in tent sites to sites with electrical hooke ups. Whislters has nearly 800 sites is the biggest camp area in the park.
You can reserve campsites at pccamping.ca, or phone 1877-737-3783 or get sites on a first come first serve basis.
Camping in Jasper National Park is available from mid May to early September with limited camping areas open during the rest of the year.
If you like to hike, there are around 1000 kilometres of trails that can keep you busy for days and probably years.
We drove down the road to Malagne lake and Canyon. There are several trails by the Maligne lake and moose lake, some shorter and well groomed and other longer ones if you are more into a good strenuous hike.
The Maligne canyon hike is also worth the trip. The hike takes you along either side of the rushing green water below, with several bridges where you can see the water cascade by! The power and force of the water here is amazing!
Driving along the highways in Jasper, you are sure to come across some sort of wildlife, from elk, mountain goats, porcupine or big horn sheep along the rock faces. There are also wolves, moose, cougars, coyotes, deer and black and grizzley bears. Elk are the most dangerous animals in Jasper National Park, so make sure to keep your distance. Since there is a good chance you'll see some wildlife along the highway, pay close attention and drive carefully, particularly between dawn and dusk.
When we first arrived, later in the day, we decided to head to the hot springs. These cost $6.50 per person for a single entry. They are quite commercial - with showers, and a small cafe (at least in my opinion of hot springs as the ones I've been to have always been remote), but it doesn't mean they are not worth the visit. You can even rent swimsuits if you forgot your own. There are 4 pools. One being lukish warm, another being quite warm (hottest in the Rockies at 53.9 C), and two that are cold are much colder. Many people like to go from the hot pool to the colder ones and back to the hot one. For entertainment, chill out (literally) in the cool pool and watch the reactions of the people peoples from the cold water. Definitely entertaining!
There are a several companies that offer river rafting along either the Athabaska river, or Sunwapta rapids. These can be easy meandering trips for the whole family or white water rafting for the more adventurous. Later in the season (September), the rapids are less dramatic, and thrilling. If you're less into adrenaline pumping, then perhaps a float trip is more up your alley, where the guides do the paddling, and you relax.
There are 3 ways to visit the Athabasca glacier. The most destructive to the Athabasca glacier is the Brewster IceExplorer Snowcoach which drives a HUGE school bus/monster truck onto the ice where you can walk on the ice. This can be busy during the summer season. It is not very good for the Athabasca glacier and not very eco-friendly. The second option is to do an ice hike. This company is very environmentally friendly and doesn't even advertise. Once in the park, visit a visitor centre and they can put you in touch with the company. They lead small group tours onto the ice. The final way to visit the Athabasca glacier is to hike up near it. You do not get to walk onto the ice (this is dangerous), but you can feel the cold emanating from the Athabasca glacier and you get a good view. This is the cheapest option cause it's free! There is also a museum at Icefield Centre which is an education on glaciers.
There are several waterfalls in Jasper National Park. My favourite was Athabaska Falls which was very beautiful. Sunwupta falls is also quite pretty. There are shorter walks that take you to different view points of the falls.
Being a huge dive fanatic, I have to include diving. There is a small company that is open only in the summer months.
Some of the other things that you can do in Jasper are: Horseback riding, museums, tramway, wildlife tours, enjoy restaurants, fishing, boat tours to spirit island on Maligne Lake, golfing, shopping and art galleries in town, Helicopter tours, Mountain biking, Canoeing and Kayaking and even Afternoon tea.
In the winter there is: Dog sledding, Skiing, Snowboarding, Ice skating, Tobagganing.
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Jasper park and will definitely be going back! There is so much to do and it is absolutely beautiful!
The Icefields Parkway highway from Jasper to Banff is claimed to be the most beautiful road.
Fact: The icefields parkway was built by unemployed men in 1931, and the men were paid 20 cents a day!


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This week we welcome new team members. Halo, Zero and 2-B they are the latest Fighters to join the office here at eGraphix. All very different and a pleasure to watch whilst designing clients work. Check out the new team members….
Halo is a stunner and loves the attention. He shimmers and shakes his booty all day long! He loves to tease his food before gobbling up his brine shrimp by giving them a quick nip. A cheeky little chap and a very entertaining fellow to watch.
Zero is a cool dude! Named "Zero" for his white sub zero snow coloured markings on his head. He is an inquisitive little guy who wants to know whats going on. He loves to chill out on his leaf hammock and soak up the LED rays!
Very similar to "B-E" in colouring but different in character. He can be quite shy and spends a lot of the time in his Man Cave! …half a Coconut shell. Who can blame him its got huge front door and skylights in the top. Pimped out or what!


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Handling, Storage, and Precautions: see Lithium Aluminum Hydride and Cobalt(II) Chloride.
Reduction of Alkenes and Alkynes.
Reduction of Halides and Tosylates.
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Gregory founded his media production company in 2003, originally named OneGem Films; though the core mission, purpose has remained the same.
His dream of opening doors to those in underserved demographics and non-traditional sectors of the arts, excluded from the heart of entertainment.
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broad comedy to Shakespesrean dramatic fair as you'll note based on upcoming TV & Film projects listed on the companies jam packed IMDB profile:
15 years in the making with the motto of "Embracing Humanity through diversity and nurturing dreams."
The reason that Gregory is still driven and determined to open doors for those less fortunate, or that do not have traditional access to the Arts and the benefits and resources that are afforded those of privilege that it takes to sustain a career in the Arts, is because he, himself was once off the underserved dreamers.
is one of those himself.
Gregory grew up in a lower-income environment; although surrounded by and supported by his family, he had to work his way through college, and pay for it himself working two jobs since he age of 16.
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'Best Night Ever' fetes special needs guests
By Carolyn Nichols/Florida Baptist Witness, posted July 29, 2014 in
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) — Teens and adults with special needs had the "Best Night Ever" at North Jacksonville Baptist Church.
"We learned from parents that the younger the children are, the more activities there are for them. But after they get older and get out of the school system, the opportunities for them are limited," said Josh Reavis, associate pastor for pastoral care who headed up the prom-like event at the Florida church.
North Jacksonville's special needs class, which includes about 15 members ages 12-70, "get first dibs on the spots" for Best Night Ever, which is offered free to individuals in the church and community, Reavis said.
In its second year, Best Night Ever included a "glitz and glamour" makeover for each guest, red carpet entrance, dessert buffet with a popular chocolate fountain, a DJ and a performance by illusionist Jared Hall.
Two hundred volunteers cheered as guests were introduced as they stepped out of their valet service vehicles in early May.
All of the guests, including several from a local group home, had an assigned "buddy" for the evening based on age and need who "walked through every part of the experience with them," Reavis said.
Other volunteers prepared food and served as bathroom attendants or on a standby medical team.
Guests and hosts stepped into a photo booth and received strips of photos and videographer Will Thomas mailed each guest a DVD of the event.
Reavis said the genesis of the event came three years ago when a former church member sent him a video of a similar event at her church in North Carolina.
"I fell in love with the idea, and I showed it to everybody in the church office," he recounted. "It took a year of planning before the first Best Night Ever."
After the initial Best Night Ever in 2013, word and interest spread. The local Down Syndrome Association endorsed it and encouraged parents to register their children.
"We want to minister to the children and their families," Reavis said, noting that the church's volunteers "take literally" Luke 14:12-14 in which Jesus said, "When you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind, and you will be blessed…."
"Our church people beg me to let them do something at Best Night Ever," Reavis said. "They know that we are blessed far more than our guests."
Carolyn Nichols is a news writer for the Florida Baptist Witness, newsjournal of the Florida Baptist Convention, where this story first appeared.
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Abdulkadir Doğulu (Mersin, 19 de abril de 1982), más conocido como Kadir Doğulu, es un actor turco conocido por haber interpretado a Macit Arcaoğlu en la serie Fatih Harbiye, a Ali en la serie Küçük Sirlar y a Mehmet Giray Han III en la serie Muhteşem Yüzyıl Kösem.

Biografía
Su hermano es el cantante turco Kemal Doğulu.

Estudió en la Universidad de Okan (Okan University).

En octubre del 2013 comenzó a salir con la actriz turca Neslihan Atagül, la pareja se comprometió el 26 de noviembre de 2015 y se casaron el 8 de julio de 2016.

Filmografía

Televisión

Cine

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Enlaces externos

 Kadir Doğulu Official Website
 Kadir Doğulu (insta)
 Kadir Doğulu (Facebook)
 Información de Vuslat en español

Actores de televisión
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Title: The Anarchist Movement in Ukraine at the Height of the New Economic Policy (1924–25)
Author: Viktor Savchenko
Topics: anarchist movement, history, propaganda, repression, Soviet Union, state capitalism, terrorism, Ukraine
Date: 19th September 2017
Source: Retrieved on 1st February 2021 from www.ewjus.com
Notes: Translated from Ukrainian by Malcolm Archibald
Viktor Savchenko
The Anarchist Movement in Ukraine at the Height of the New Economic Policy (1924–25)
Abstract: This paper examines a virtually unknown period of the development of the anarchist movement in Ukraine, ignored by both Soviet and post-Soviet historians, for whom the history of anarchism in the Soviet Union ended in 1921. The author, basing his information on archival materials, including the archives of the Soviet secret police agencies (ChK, GPU, OGPU), extends the life of the anarchist movement through the mid-1920s. This was a period of revitalization of the movement, especially among students, young workers, and the unemployed in the cities of Eastern and Southern Ukraine (Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Poltava). Despite repression by the government, the anarchist movement in the USSR in the 1920s was able to sustain itself by going underground.
Keywords: anarchists, Ukraine, underground, repression, propaganda, leaflets, terror.
The mid-1920s was the time of the third chance (if one counts the revolutions of 1905 and 1917 as the first two chances) given by history to East European anarchists to prove their strength. The question of the existence of an anarchist movement in the USSR in the 1920s remains controversial in historiography. Most Soviet historians claimed that anarchism was "totally bankrupt" as early as September 1921 (the date of the "disappearance of the Makhnovshch[y]na") (Iaroslavskii 51, 57). Only the Soviet historian S. Kanev "ventured" to reconsider the process of the "disappearance" of the anarchist movement in the USSR, announcing that "the elimination of pockets of anarchist counterrevolution was not synonymous with the suppression of anarchism generally." He associated the disappearance of anarchism in the USSR with the self-dissolution of the legal All-Russian Anarchist Federation in 1925 (Kanev 401). In modern historiography, two opposing tendencies have emerged with respect to the disappearance of anarchism. According to M. Borovyk, the movement liquidated itself at the beginning of the 1920s. L. Orchakov also limits the existence of anarchism as a political movement to the early 1920s. On the other hand, A. Dubovik believes that the anarchist movement in Ukraine persisted into the 1930s.
This article is based on documents of the Soviet secret police agencies from "closed" archives. This source receives corroboration from documents of anarchist provenance (newspapers and other periodicals, letters, and memoirs).
Starting in 1924, it became apparent to both the Chekists and the anarchist leaders that there was a resurgence of the anarchist movement in the USSR, associated with a revival of interest in anarchism among young people especially. The reasons for this were many: disenchantment with NEP and Bolshevik policies, increased unemployment, the "purging" of universities and the civil service, the expansion of political space due to the disappearance of the formerly powerful Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevik parties, the death of Lenin (which led to a weakening of the central government), and the cessation of famine in Ukraine (which had sapped the forces necessary for struggle). At the same time, the conflicts inside the AUCP(B) (All-Union Communist Party [Bolsheviks]) became harsher: first between the "troika" (Zinov'ev – Kamenev – Stalin) and Trotskii; after 1925, between Stalin and his former allies Zinov'ev and Kamenev. Trotskii in his own campaigns used a number of slogans that were anarchistic in tone, calling for "equal rights for youth," struggle against "the party bureaucracy," and the development of "permanent revolution" (similar to the anarchists' "Third Revolution").
The Ukrainian anarchist renaissance in Left Bank and Southern Ukraine (1924–25) had a definite potential for development, given that the industrial centres of Ukraine in 1904–08 and 1917 were also centres of the anarchist movement in Eastern Europe, and that the anarchists had enjoyed mass support in the Makhnovist movement of 1918–21 and in the movement of workers for the socialization of enterprises in Odesa and in the Donbas in 1917–18 (Savchenko, Anarkhistsʹkyi rukh; "Anarkhisty ta robitnychyi rukh").
The revival of anarchism in the USSR may also have been connected with the international conjuncture, namely, the Kremlin's plans for world revolution, in which the anarchists were regarded as allies in a multi-faceted struggle with the bourgeois states. A special place in these plans was assigned to the revolution in Germany. In 1922–23 there was a noticeable easing of repression against anarchists in the USSR, accompanied by attempts to recruit anarchist militants and propagandists for work in Germany (Talerov). Anarchists in Ukraine took note of this tendency and tried to make use of it to bolster their own influence.
Neither the Trotskyists nor the Zinovievists evoked the sympathies of the anarchist leaders. The anarchists considered publishing leaflets to explain their "neutrality" vis-à-vis the battle between Stalin and Trotskii (DAOO, f.r. 7, op. 1, spr. 409, ark. 8). Anarchists expressed some sympathy only for the Sapronovists (the former "Decists"), an oppositional group inside the Russian Communist Party. Although this group was not large, it had adherents in Ukraine (Kharkiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv) (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 370, T. 6, ark. 98).
In the mid-1920s at the height of NEP, anarchists criticized the capitalistic features of NEP, the elimination of democratic freedoms, the control over society exercised by the special services, and the repression of the socialist forces, characterizing the regime as "state-capitalist," "restorationist," and fascist-dictatorial. Under no illusions concerning soviets and trade unions, the anarchists regarded them as "affiliated branches" of the dictatorship (Rublev).
In the mid-1920s, the anarchist leader P. Arshinov, in exile in Paris, wrote: "There, in Russia, our movement ... is gradually beginning to right itself, to come to its senses" (1). A certain "Viktor" wrote from the USSR to the well-known anarchist S. Fleshin in the West that he belonged to "a group of anarchist youth," and that in the Komsomol one could sense a trend "towards the anarchists" (IISH, Senya Fléchine Papers, Folder 79, p. 2). In a letter from an unknown anarchist in the USSR to the anarchist ideologue Voline (V. Eichenbaum), the writer indicated that "recently we have noticed a revival of activity" (IISH, Senya Fléchine Papers, Folder 80, p. 72). Worthy of note is "Obrashchenie Ukrainskoi gruppy k anarkhicheskim organizatsiiam i otdel'nym tovarishcham v Rossii" ("Appeal of a Ukrainian Group to Anarchist Organizations and Individual Comrades in Russia," 1924), which states that anarchists are renewing contacts between groups, and "have begun the process of unifying," expecting "in the near future to meet (and not only with our comrades from other cities) at an All-Russian Congress of Anarchists" (2).
Similar assessments are found in a report of the 1st Section of the Secret Department (SO) of the OGPU:
Anarchist activity during the reporting period was brisk, tending to both intensify and expand ... during the three-month period, 18 operations were carried out and around 300 anarchists arrested. About 750 individuals in Moscow have been identified; in the Union as a whole, over 4000. ("Sovershenno sekretno," see 1924)
The "All-Union" figures for persons suspected of anarchism provide corroboration for an upsurge in anarchist tendencies.
In 1923 the Chekists recorded intensified activity on the part of the anarcho-syndicalists, who were
in contact with German syndicalists, receiving money from them to carry on their work; they have their own print shops, bookstores, and offices. This current operates both legally and underground. Its leaders are emigrants. They work mainly among students. The syndicalists, being better organized and financially stronger than the VFA [All-Russian Federation of Anarchists], are aware of the advantages of unifying the anarchist groups, and draw the VFA into common projects. ("Sovershenno sekretno," see 1923)
A "subsidy" for the anarchist underground in the USSR came from the International Workers' Association—the global federation of anarcho-syndicalist unions (Dam'e).
In the summer of 1923, the Chekists found the anarchist counterrevolution taking the following forms:
tossing a cylinder of carbon dioxide into a theatre pit in Kharkiv for the purpose, according to the local anarchist who threw it, of killing the communists and speculators sitting there; anti-Soviet and anti-taxation agitation conducted by individual anarchists in the villages of Podil's'kyi, Poltavs'kyi, and Chernihivs'kyi provinces; attempts to carry out 'exes' [expropriations] in Poltava. ( "Sovershenno sekretno," see 1923) In October 1923 in Odesa, the anarchist M. Kal'ko was put on trial, accused of forming an "underground detachment with the intention of overthrowing the government" in the village of Hladosa. This detachment, with 30 armed insurgents, carried out expropriations and attacked trains, volost executive committees ( volispolkomy), and local officials (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 1, ark. 748, 758).
The general plan of the GPU—eliminating all non-Bolshevik parties by getting them to dissolve themselves—did not work in the case of the anarchists. The anarchists tried to entrench themselves, both in the underground and in legal activities (including Esperanto clubs), and to recruit former members of the Communist Party. State enterprises in Ukrainian cities were hit by a new wave of strikes which had a syndicalist character. In Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson, factories were struck; soldiers and sailors in the ports carried out a general strike. In September-October 1923 strike action affected "almost the whole Donbas," Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Pervomaisk, and Voznesensk (DAOO, f. r. 3, op. 1, spr. 409, ark. 8).
The strength of the protest of the unemployed is demonstrated by the events of May 15–21, 1924, in Odesa, when around 5,000 unemployed marched through the city, shouting "down with the government." They drove off the mounted police and stormed the building of the provincial executive committee ( hubvykonkom), "seeking a better life and livelihood"
("Samoubiistvo kak protest," 4). Among the leaders of this protest were M.
Kyrychenko, M. Handler, Savyts'kyi, Berkovych, and Hertsenzon, identified by police informers as "anarchists–syndicalists." Some of the leaders of the rebellion were arrested and sentenced to exile (DAOO, f. r. 3, op. 1, spr. 1310, ark. 120; HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 2, ark. 80, 92). The involvement of the Odesan anarchists in this rebellion is indicated not only by the arrests (75 persons) which took place in their milieu, but also by the formal termination of the activities of the Odesan Federation of Anarchists: "for conspiratorial reasons they dissolved the organization, but secretly continued to take part in meetings of the unemployed" (DAOO, f. r. 8065, op. 2, spr. 25916, ark. 173).
The anarchist press drew attention to the fact that after the rebellion in Odesa, 16 people were arrested for armed resistance to the GPU during searches and seven of them were executed. S. Zekhtser, the organizer of the anarchist underground in Odesa in 1918, was executed for "banditism" ("Rasstrel bezrabotnykh," 2).
In 1924 the USRR Chekists recorded anarchist groups in 28 cities and towns: Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mariupol, Zhytomyr, Kremenchuh, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kamenets-Podilskyi, Vinnytsia, Uman, Bakhmut, Berdiansk, Chernihiv, Kaniv, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Ielyzavethrad, Ialta, Iuzovo, Lubny, Romny, Nizhyn, Radomysl, and the village of Podolky in Romenskyi okruh (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 2, ark. 2, 17, 46, 68–80, 92–93, 99; T. 6. ark. 15). But, in reality, there were even more places with anarchist groups.
In Odesa, agents of the GPU identified three anarchist circles among the working class, and a group of "anarchist youth." The Odesan anarchists planned to publish their own journal and start an anarchist library (Savchenko, Neofitsial'naia Odessa 57–58). The archives of the Cheka-GPU include the following statistics for the number of anarchists known to the political police in Odesa: 1921—200 persons, 1922—109, 1924—135, 1925—50 (HDA SBU. f. 13. spr. 370, T. 1, ark. 748, 758. DAOO. f. r. 3, op. 1, spr. 584, ark. 158; spr. 893, ark. 153; f. r.-8065, op. 2, spr. 1187). But there were also dozens of individual anarchists who belonged to "wildcat" groups (independent groups not connected with anarchist centres and authoritative leaders). The Chekists regarded such groups as Esperanto clubs, "hypnosis groups" (the anarchist Tsveif experimented with hypnosis), and the neo-Templarist "Order of Light" (a section of which was active in Kharkiv) as part of the clandestine anarchist movement: "The underground in the student milieu is camouflaged by circles for studying mysticism" ( "Sovershenno sekretno," see 1925). A bulletin of the GPU (October 1924) stated that, in spite of arrests, the anarchists were still "trying to be active in certain factories and clubs of garment workers" (IISH, Senya Fléchine Papers, Folder 81, pp. 1–2, 4, 23).
Kharkiv anarchists managed to re-establish a citywide organization on the basis of the "Nabat" platform. They took part in organizing strikes (the
"VEK" plant, the Locomotive plant, and in the railway workshops and depots), published hectographed leaflets, planned to set up an underground print shop, and maintained illegal contacts with foreign anarchists as well as anarchists in Moscow, Petrograd, Kyiv, Katerynoslav, Mykolaiv, and Odesa.
The Kharkiv anarchists were active among civil servants, artisans, and at the Technological Institute. In April 1924,
an operation against the anarchists was launched throughout Kharkiv, culling the leading activists of the Kharkiv anarchists, smashing their editorial collective, and confiscating materials used for publishing journals and May Day leaflets and a host of other organizational materials. ("Sovershenno sekretno," see 1924)
But after the arrests, the Kharkiv anarchists continued their activities by organizing "underground circles of workers ... conducting work among the railway workers" (the group was liquidated), and spreading a proclamation signed by the "Group of worker-anarchists" (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 370, T. 1, ark. 82–83). The Kharkiv Federation of Anarchists planned an All-Union congress of anarchists (for July-August 1924), prompting the authorities to arrest approximately 70 Kharkiv anarchists, six of whom were dispatched into exile (Iarutskii 309–10; HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 1, ark. 44).
Anarcho-syndicalists in Kyiv met to discuss unifying the anarchists of the Ukrainian SSR, and "made plans for a campaign against the induction of workers into the ranks of RCP (Russian Communist Party)" ( "Sovershenno sekretno," see 1924). In June 1924, a number of Kyiv anarchists were arrested, including O. Taratuta, N. Drikker, A. Konse, and members of the "Union of Anarchist Youth" (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 2, ark. 115).
Emigrant sources add that anarchists from the construction workers' union in Kyiv were arrested for "speaking out among the workers" ( Amerikanskie izvestiia; Golos truda no. 221, no. 228). Arrests of activists belonging to underground anarchist groups took place in Poltava and Iuzovo in the summer of 1924; in Radomysl, Sevastopol, and Ialta in October 1924 ( Volna 47; HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 2, ark. 68–79, 109; spr. 283, ark. 32–35).
In 1925 there was a wave of "new arrests of anarchists in connection with their revival" all over the USSR (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 2. ark. 17–18, 92–120, 128, 205). In Poltava, anarchists conducted propaganda at the vocational and feldsher schools, at the agricultural-cooperative college, among the unemployed and workers in the railway workshops, and in Lubenskyi okrug at the local teacher training courses (Statsenko 212–14; HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 3. ark. 81; T. 4. ark. 30 ob.; T. 8. ark. 9 ob). Groups of anarchist youth were reported in Myrhorodskyi and Prylutskyi okrugs, and in the cities of Hadiach and Romny. There were groups in villages of the Poltava region; they distributed the handwritten underground anarchist journals Anarkhiia ( Anarchy) and Vil'na dumka ( Free Thought) (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 370, T. 5, ark. 178, 21, 25, 89). In 1925 the case of anarchists of the Poltava region resulted in the arrest of 85 persons; all of the arrested were between the ages of 18 and 25. Despite the 1925 arrests, in the following year the Chekists noted that "the Poltavan anarchists are especially active" ("Sovershenno sekretno," see 1926). Young people, with the extremism of youth, continued to flock to the black banner, and to populate the jails, political isolators (prisons for political prisoners), and places of exile.
After the Civil War and the establishment of NEP, a spontaneous movement of protest emerged among young people, repelled by the decline in revolutionary morals, the restoration of elements of capitalism, and the Party and Komsomol bureaucracies. Youthful protests sometimes turned into "red banditism" or "red hooliganism," in which young people expressed their discontent in anarchistic fashion by going on a rampage under slogans denouncing betrayers of the workers. Anarchist groups tried to exploit this mood of "spontaneous anarchism" by pitching their leaflets and other publications at a youth audience. The anarchist youth groups which emerged in 1922–25 in Ukraine were mostly autonomous and, indeed, were often far removed from "ideological" anarchism. But they formed part of the anarchist socio-political movement. This movement was distinguished by its spirit, volatility, spontaneity, and breadth. Manifestations of spontaneous anarchism and left extremism were documented in all regions of the USSR in the mid-1920s (Isaev). The emergence of anarchist youth groups on a large-scale basis was part of the trend of "leftism" ( livatstvo) among Soviet youth.
In 1925 arrests of active members of youth groups in opposition to the government took place across the whole USSR; these groups included "Revolutionary Vanguard" (Moscow); the "Volga Group of Revolutionary-Socialist Youth" (Nizhnii Novgorod); Left-SR groups in universities of Leningrad, Voronezh, Tomsk, and Orel; and the "Party of Non-Party Students" (Kyiv). The anarchist A. M. Garaseva recalled that in 1925 part of the student milieu was infected with anarchism, and that there were underground groups of anarcho-syndicalists (Garaseva 87, 89, 148). In anarchist circles, the notion of creating an "Anarcho-Communist Association of Youth in Ukraine" was proposed. Anarchist youth groups were noted in Kyiv and Kharkiv, along with the "Anarchist International Association of Working Class Youth 'Buntar'" ("Ob anarkhistakh"). At the Third Congress of the Communist Youth Union of Ukraine, criticisms were voiced concerning the "anarchist and syndicalist attitudes" observed in some young people ("Otchet"). A circular letter issued by the Central Committee of the CP(B)U to the provincial committees ( hubkoms) of the Party and the KSMU (the Ukrainian Komsomol) called for struggle against "anarchist vacillating" among youth, and against the formation of "non-party associations of young people" ("Otchet"). In February 1923, student youth in Poltava started the anarchist group "Vanguard," which distributed handwritten postcards addressed to students in the Institute of Popular Education, the Cooperative Academic College, and the local KSMU (Statsenko 214). The government noted the influence of anarchists on the Esperantist movement in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa. The founders of the Esperantist movement in the Soviet republics, S. M. Gaidovskii, O. M. Antonovych (head of the "All-Ukrainian Organization of Esperantists"), and N. Ia. Futerfas (member of the organizing committee of the "All-Russian Esperanto Federation"), were regarded by the Chekists as anarchist agitators (Lins).
Especially worrisome for the authorities were the "extension of the underground"; the attempts of the anarchists to "lead workers' protests" and strikes; their appeals for the organizing of "independent fabzavkoms" (factory-plant committees) and "free trade unions"; their efforts to "subvert the army and the fleet"; their bid to "win popularity" in the villages; and their "intensification of underground activity among students ... anarchism takes root by various means both in the Communist Party and in the Komsomol ... A significant part of the rising generation is attracted to the ideas and theory of anarchism" ( "Sovershenno sekretno," see 1924). Anarchists were active among students and young workers in Dnipropetrovsk (the Mining Institute) and Zaporizhia (HDA SBU, f. 13, op. 1, spr. 415, T. 1, ark. 93, 178). In January 1925 in Bakhmut, members of a "Committee of Revolutionary Action," an anarchist group which organized strikes of miners, were arrested ("Bakhmutskiy komitet deistvii," 4).
In 1925 Chekists established the presence of student-anarchists in two institutions of higher learning in Kyiv: the Institute of People's Education and the Cooperative Higher Technical College. In Odesa, they identified anarchist cells—"fivers" ( p"iatirky)—among students of the Institute of People's Education and the Medical Institute. Conspiratorial "fivers" existed in Odesa in labour collectives of dockers, tailors, milliners, railway and local transport workers, and bakers; in units of the Red Army; and among the unemployed.
Acting in an uncoordinated fashion were groups of anarcho-individualists, anarcho-syndicalists, and anarcho-positivists ( Golos truzhenika; HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 370, T. 2, ark. 29–30; DAOO, f. r. 3, op. 1, spr. 1328, ark. 22).
In Odesa a group was formed of anarchist political refugees—Bessarabists (from Moldova). In 1924 a few Bulgarian anarchists turned up in Odesa: these were political refugees who arrived in the city under the auspices of MOPR (International Red Aid): Zh. Hrozev, D. Kvachev, G. Nikolov, and S. Dzhanzhulev (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 2, ark. 346). During interrogation in 1936, Hrozev revealed:
When I arrived in the USSR, I found an existing underground organization in Odesa composed exclusively of Bulgarian political refugees ... the Odesa anarchist organization was in contact with foreign anarchist federations, namely, with the French, Serbian, and Bulgarian federations ... they received instructions and material support from abroad for anarchists serving terms of exile in the USSR. (DAOO, f. r. 8065, op. 2, spr. 11704, ark. 13; HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 370, T. 16, ark. 6)
The Chekists noted links between the Bulgarian anarchist emigrants in Odesa and Bulgarian anarchist emigrants in France.
The "underground" anarchist groups of Odesa revived somewhat owing to an injection of semi-emigrants from Italy: G. Bucciarelli, R. Cavani, G. Evangelisti, Alboni, E. Herbovets (who organized an assassination attempt in Odesa of the captain of the Italian ship "Cobbe"), D. Serpo, and A. Butiki (DAOO, f. r. 7, op. 1, spr. 41, ark. 14, 102; HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 370, T. 5, ark. 394 ob). In 1923–26, there was an agricultural commune near Ialta operated by Italian and French anarchists who had emigrated to the USSR. One of its members, the Italian F. Ghezzi, was an active proponent of anarchism (Dolzhanskaia).
The Chekists, confirming the expansion of the underground, noted that anarchist groups "were often composed of from 25 to 60 persons or more."
In April 1925, referring to the anarchists, the Chekists stated: "in a significant number of cases their organizations have assumed a mass character" and are "infecting" "certain strata of the working class" ( "Sovershenno sekretno," see 1925). In the Politburo of the Russian Communist Party (RCP[B]), a committee chaired by S. Lozovskii, head of the Profintern, devised a plan for the forced expulsion from the USSR of prominent socialists and anarchists being held in prisons and concentration camps (approximately 1,500 people) (Pavlov 72). In June 1925, the GPU conducted an operation to arrest and expel anarchists from Odesa; some of the anarchists were exiled to villages of Kherson region (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 2, ark. 128).
In June 1925, arrests of anarchists were carried out in Kyiv, after which the Chekists stated that in the city "since the middle of 1925, anarchist groups no longer exist." And yet, in October 1925 a small group of Kyiv anarchists turned up at the funeral of one of the most seasoned anarchists in the USSR, A. Stepanova (Halaieva) (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 2, ark. 68–81, 109, 160, 183, 205).
An internal bulletin dated December 15 1925 noted "a boost in the activity level of anarchist groups in a number of districts" and "widespread activity of anarchists." The bulletin warned of "the return of anarchists who had been dispersed" and were now coalescing in groups; about "their activization of work" in the villages; about the anarchists' "special interest in the strict centralization of their actions and the creation of a single centre for Ukraine ... In Ukraine we are confronted with attempts to merge small groups of individuals into a single Ukrainian party ... Such attempts have already turned up in a whole series of surveillance reports" (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 2, ark. 38, 46). The GPU determined that "the revival of the anarchist movement is continuing, especially in Moscow and the Central Region, the Northwest, and Ukraine"; in October 1925 "the underground activity of the anarchists is in expansion mode. There are anarchist groups and circles in many regions of the USSR" ( "Sovershenno sekretno," see 1925).
The repressive actions and provocations of the GPU forced the anarchists to cut back their legal activities and retreat to the "deep" underground, using their experience of fighting the tsarist regime. The GPU committed considerable resources to keeping track of the "old cadres" of anarchists, known because of their activities in 1917–21. But these anarchists provided a "screen" for an anarchist underground based on "conspiratorial fives" (into which it was difficult for the GPU to plant provocateurs) and "wildcat" autonomous youth groups. For the anarchist conspiratorial groups, it was important that the punitive organs focused on the activities in the USRR of the 30 to 50 "old" anarchists and overlooked the "wildcat" groups, still not infiltrated by secret informants of the GPU. It is possible this strategy was abetted by the Relief Fund for repressed anarchists, the "Anarchist Black Cross" (Berlin), which worked only with the "old" anarchists, corresponding with them officially through the state postal system, and thereby concentrating the attentions of the Chekists exclusively on them. In the mid-1920s, while carrying on its support for repressed anarchists, the Relief Fund identified between 130 to 150 anarchists in prisons and places of exile in the USSR. But this was only about one-fifth of the number of repressed anarchists; most of the anarchists drawing on the support of the Fund were "old anarchists with a name" (A. Baron, L. Gutman, I. Charin, etc.). The correspondence of anarchists in the USSR with the Relief Fund "levelled off," according to the reports of the GPU (IISH, Senya Fléchine Papers, Folder 79, pp. 1–27).
The Chekists pointed out that the main threat to the government came from "rebellious elements inclined towards terrorism and expropriations," the "most intransigent," who "go underground and try to form a bloc with other anti-Soviet parties" (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 283, ark. 3). Bearing in mind the significant combat potential of the anarchists (judging by the numerous terrorist acts committed by them in 1905–08 and 1917–19), the Bolsheviks feared the underground-anarchists would change their tactics and launch a campaign of total terror against the representatives of Soviet power. This issue may have become an urgent concern as a result of a 1924 report by the secret agent M. Spektor, who described secret meetings in Poland of Russian, Polish, Italian, and German anarchists at which a campaign of terror was discussed. The Italian, German, and some of the Russian anarchists (M. Cherniak, Mikhailov) were in favour of a campaign of terror against Soviet leaders, while N. Makhno, V. Voline, and P. Arshinov were against terror, convinced of the necessity "to concentrate our forces for organizational and propaganda work" (Skrypnyk 233–34). The anarchists had neither the forces, means, enthusiasm, nor specific targets in mind for widespread political terror. Rather, they viewed the political system as it had developed in the Soviet republics as the problem, not the individuals managing this system.
With such information, the Chekists informed the Kremlin: "In Ukraine certain anarchists are considering launching a terror campaign against prominent figures of the Soviet government and the All-Russian Communist Party (ACP[B])" ( "Sovershenno sekretno," see 1925). The anarchists of Poltava were accused of only "thinking about terror and exes [expropriations]." In June 1925 the Ukrainian Chekists jauntily reported that "operations carried out in Kyiv and Poltava provinces found weapons, explosives, and illegal literature. Around 100 anarchists were arrested." The punitive organs continued to arrest anarchists in Ukraine in 1925, accusing them of "planning expropriations." In early 1926 the Chekists reported: "During the period in question, the anarchists stepped up their underground activities in Ukraine" (in Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, and Odesa okrugs; in Kharkiv and Mariupol; and in the Donbas and Crimea), "mainly among student youth." "In some areas the anarchists are establishing relations with other cities of the Union and abroad" ( "Sovershenno sekretno," see 1926).
The administration of the GPU issued an internal memo on the need for classifying anarchists as "active," "passive," "sympathizing," or "former," pointing out that up to this time "information about the anarchists is being generated almost exclusively by OPK (Otdel politicheskogo kontrolia) and foreign intelligence; the network of agents is very weak" (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 415, T. 2, ark. 17). The links of some of the anarchists of Kharkiv, Katerynoslav, and the Donbas with "Golos truda" (Moscow), the only legal anarchist publishing house in the USSR, afforded the Chekists with certain information. This publisher kept functioning until 1929, serving as a "trap" for the anarchists (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 370, T. 5, ark. 21–29).
Another sign of the revival of the anarchists in 1924–25 was the distribution throughout the cities of the USSR of issues of the Paris anarchist journal Delo truda ( The Cause of Labour); the Argentine newspapers Anarkhiia ( Anarchy) and Golos truda ( The Voice of Labour); and the publications Rassvet ( Dawn) and Probuzhdenie ( Awakening) from the USA.
Also distributed were the illegal publications Prizyv ( The Call), Khleb i volia ( Bread and Freedom), and the handbill "Rabochiie-anarkhisty" ("Worker-anarchists"). The anarchists were discovered to have shapirographs, hectographs, and even a print shop. It was noted that "the distribution of anarchist literature in Ukraine is expanding; underground journals are being published and efforts are being made to set up branches of the 'Golos truda' publishing house." Leaflets "calling for the overthrow of the government" were confiscated at factories in Zaporizhia and Kremenchuk provinces, and in Kharkiv and Odesa (HDA SBU, f. 13, spr. 370, T. 5, ark. 41, 89, 103, 122 ob., 178).
The increasing strength of the anarchist presence in the political life of the Ukrainian SRR in the mid-1920s was reflected in the amount of literature being produced, imported, and distributed. Dozens of handwritten tracts, published using shapirographs, as well as newspapers, journals, and leaflets, turned up in Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, and the Donbas.
Agents of the secret police reported propaganda and organizing efforts by the anarchists among circles of young people and workers (Odesa, Poltava, and Kharkiv); the emergence of dozens of new groups of anarchists in cities and villages of the Ukrainian SRR; and the involvement of anarchists in organizing strikes and protest meetings (Odesa, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk).[1]
A party structure with a stable membership was not inherent to the anarchist movement. Its strength did not lie in the number of formal members, but rather in its potential to influence the broad masses that might spontaneously come to anarchism. The radicalization of the masses in 1905–07 and 1917–20 had allowed the anarchist movement to come into its own as a socio-political force. The radicalization of sections of the population of the USSR in the mid-1920s revived the anarchist movement, but the movement was unable to expand its influence on a broad scale under conditions of the consolidation of totalitarianism. The subsequent liquidation of the movement removed any possibility of providing a competing political force in the USSR.
The anarchist "renaissance" in the USSR (especially in the Ukrainian SSR), which showed its potential in 1924–25, had the possibility of reviving the movement destroyed in 1920–21. The anarchists hoped to "stir up" young people, the numerous unemployed, working class radicals, and former Makhnovists, and to start preparing a new revolution in the USSR.
The punitive organs detected this tendency and made every effort to localize and gradually, with the use of both small- and large-scale repression, enervate the anarchist underground in the USSR. Subsequently, in 1926–29, the OGPU stepped up its punitive policy against the anarchists, resulting in the suppression of the anarchist movement in Ukraine.
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So today I want to talk about TRON: Legacy, but I am finding it difficult to find the words to explain why I love it so much. So I made a list instead, and I hope that at least one thing on the list will make you want to watch it and enjoy it as much as I did.
Daft Punk made the music. There is no way to overstate just how much this makes the entire movie. Daft Punk are GENIOUSES at the top of their craft, and they could not have written a more perfect soundtrack.
It draws heavily from Blade Runner and the Fifth Element, two of my favourite films.
Rather than rejecting the camp, it embraces it. Even the cheesiest dialogue is done with a wink.
The visuals are stunning, and I love the way they restyled the interceptor ships.
It certainly helps that the '80s are big right now, because this movie is super '80s and it works really well.
Jeff Bridges has an uncanny ability to jump back and forth from The Sage to The Dude.
Some people may disagree with me, but I thought the story was actually not half bad. You got to know the characters, feel for them, there was a goal they had to accomplish and you wanted them to accomplish it. Yes, it may have been a little predictable. It may have been a little Hollywood. Most Hollywood movies are Hollywood, and that's not a bad thing. Not every movie has to have a complex plot to be enjoyable. If you're the type of person who wants every movie to be Eraserhead, then watch Eraserhead.
Quorra may as well have been called Leeloo. Does every sci-fi movie have to have a supreme being who is a girl and must therefore be saved at some point, even though she is a better fighter than the rest of the characters combined?
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Prepared. Most successful CXOs plan for eventualities, both short- and long-term. More than 85% of CXOs whose organizations successfully balance addressing short- and long-term priorities felt they had pivoted very effectively to adapt to the events of 2020, whereas fewer than half of organizations without that balance felt the same.
Adaptable. Leaders recognize the importance of having versatile employees, especially after a year like 2020. To that end, flexibility/adaptability was, by far, the workforce trait CXOs said was most critical to their organizations' futures.
Collaborative. CXOs indicated the importance of collaboration within their organizations, noting that it sped decision-making, mitigated risk, and led to increased innovation. In fact, removing silos and increasing collaboration was one of the top strategic actions CXOs took before and during 2020.
Trustworthy. CXOs understand the challenge of building trust. More than a third of responding CXOs were not confident their organizations had succeeded in developing trust between leaders and employees. Those who are succeeding are focusing on improving communication and transparency with key stakeholders, as well as leading with empathy.
Responsible. Most CXOs acknowledge that the business world has a responsibility beyond the bottom line. Eighty-seven percent of surveyed CXOs who said they have done very well at balancing all of their stakeholders' needs also felt that their organizations could quickly adapt and pivot in response to disruptive events. That's nearly 50 percentage points more than the proportion of CXOs who said the same at organizations that haven't done well at balancing their stakeholders' needs.
Our resilient world
Most resilient organizations focus on all of these traits to some degree, not just one or two of them. In part, this is because these characteristics often overlap and support one another. For instance, companies that practice stakeholder capitalism are likely focused on trustworthiness and ethical behavior.
Further, these five attributes aren't immutable, nor do they just occur organically. They require desire, effort, investment, and action to cultivate and maintain. The survey suggests that organizations that deliberately build these attributes into their mindsets and cultures are better positioned to overcome disruptions and help usher in a "better normal" postpandemic. For example, CXOs who said their organizations had done very well in cultivating resilient cultures were about three times more likely than those lacking resilient cultures to say they weathered the events of 2020 well.
Leaders can't be sure their organizations are truly resilient until they're tested by adversity. The toughest and most important test most have ever taken arrived in 2020, and for some CXOs, revealed that their organizations were more resilient than they realized. Before 2020, only 24% of CXOs felt completely ready to lead through potential disruptions, and only 21% felt completely confident their organizations could quickly adapt and pivot, if needed. In the midst of the pandemic, however, these numbers jumped to 34% and 30%, respectively, indicating that the events of 2020 have given some CXOs a confidence boost about their organizations'—and their own—resilience. Yet that still leaves 66% of CXOs who don't feel completely ready to lead and 70% who don't have complete confidence in their organizations' ability to pivot and adapt to disruptive events.
Perhaps most importantly, the data suggests that speed matters. Organizations that made early investments in resilient strategies during the COVID-19 crisis—or, even better, had already made strategic, workforce, and technology investments in capabilities that enhance resilience—outperformed their competition. This finding points to a fundamental lesson that the pandemic brought home: that resilience is as much about thinking ahead as it is about doing what it takes to respond and recover from a crisis.
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