Efim Yarchuk

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Efim Zakharovych Yarchuk^[a] (1882–1937, also known as Khaim Zakharev)^[b] was a Ukrainian Jewish anarcho-syndicalist. A partisan of the Black Banner organisation during the Russian Revolution of 1905, he was exiled to Siberia and then emigrated to the United States, where he joined the Union of Russian Workers. In the wake of the February Revolution of 1917, he returned from exile and took up the leadership of the anarchist movement on the island of Kronstadt, leading local soldiers during the July Days and the October Revolution.

Following the suppression of his newspaper Golos Truda and a series of arrests by the Cheka, Yarchuk became disillusioned with the Bolsheviks and began to agitate against them. For this he was imprisoned and only released after a hunger strike attracted protests from syndicalist delegates to the founding congress of the Profintern. He was deported from Russia and briefly resumed his publishing activities in exile, but in 1925, he was permitted to return to the Soviet Union, where he was executed during the Great Purge.
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