Aron Baron
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Aron Baron, 1911
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Aron Davidovich Baron July 1, 1891 Gnilets, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | August 12, 1937 (aged 46) Tobolsk, Russia |
| Cause of death | Executed |
| Other names | Aron Polevoy Aron Faktorovich Aron Kantorovich |
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| Spouse(s) | Fanya Baron, Fanny Avrutskaya |
| Children | Theodore, Voltairine |
Aron Baron (Russian: Аро́н Дави́дович Ба́рон; 1 July 1891 – 12 August 1937) was an anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary and theorist, brother of the Red Cossacks Army Ataman Mikhail Baron. Pseudonyms included Faktorovich, Kantorovich, Polevoy.
Baron was born into a petty bourgeois family of eight in Gnilets, Kiev Governorate on 1 July 1891 to David (who was born Faktorovich and changed his surname to avoid military service), a jurist, and Mindel (née Rabinovich), a housewife. While still a school student, working as a baker, he joined the anarchist movement and took part in the 1905 Revolution. In 1907, as a member of the baker's union of Kiev, he was arrested and exiled.
In 1912, Baron fled to the USA, settled in Chicago and joined the Industrial Workers of the World. While staying with the family of his brother Newman, he met his wife's sister, Fanya Grefenson, who became Baron's companion and fellow activist. Baron started working as a co-editor of Lucy Parsons' weekly anarchist newspaper, The Alarm and cooperated with the Union of Russian Workers. While living in Chicago, Baron regularly took part in demonstrations organised by American workers, also becoming involved with Russian and Jewish trade unions and anarchist groups. In January 1915, Baron and his wife led a march against unemployment, clashing with police and being severely beaten. His political activism led to prison terms several occasions.
In June 1917, Aron and Fanya Baron came back to Kiev. There, Baron became the head of a local anarcho-syndicalist group and was elected to Kiev's Soviet of Worker's Deputies. He found popularity among workers, soldiers and peasants as a lecturer. In the autumn, he raised an anarchist unit to fight the Cossack troops of Alexey Kaledin, and later the Germano-Austrian troops.
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