Daniil Novomirskii

Yakov Isaevich Kirilovskii (; 1882-), commonly known by his pseudonym Daniil Novomirskii , was a Ukrainian Jewish anarcho-syndicalist. A leading figure in the Ukrainian syndicalist movement, Novomirskii sharply criticised the terrorist tactics of anarchist communism and the opportunism of social democracy. His South Russian Group of Anarcho-Syndicalists grew in popularity among workers throughout Ukraine, but it was suppressed in the aftermath of the 1905 Revolution and Novomirskii himself was imprisoned. After the 1917 Revolution, he became a notable anarchist supporter of the Russian Communist Party, although he was later disillusioned by its implementation of the New Economic Policy. He and his wife disappeared into the Gulag during the Great Purge.

Biography Yakov Isaevich Kirilovskii was born into a Ukrainian Jewish family of teachers on 5 March 1882 in Gaisin (northern Ukraine, Kamenets Podolski province. "Programma iuzhno-rossiiskoi gruppy Anarkhistov-Sindikalistov" (1906) "Iz programmi sindikalnovo anarkhizma" ("Anarchism's trade union programme", 1907) "Pis'mo iz Rossii" (1907) "Tolko Dusha" (1920) "Anarkhicheskoe dvizhenie v Odesse" (1926)