Ida Mett

Ida Mett (born Ida Markovna Gilman in 1901 in Smarhon, in present-day Belarus; died 1973) was a Belarusian physician, writer and anarcho-syndicalist. After the Russian Revolution she moved to Moscow to study medicine and joined the anarchist movement, and in 1924 she was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation and deported. She settled in Paris, took the pen-name Ida Mett and co-edited the Russian anarchist magazine Delo truda, working with Peter Arshinov and Nestor Makhno on the Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists. She later lived in Belgium and France, was interned with her young son at the Rieucros Camp after the Battle of France in 1940, and worked as a translator, a historian and, in her last decades, as a nurse. Her place in a record of medicine rests on her medical training and her later nursing work, set beside a life mostly spent in political writing. This entry is a reference record, not medical advice.