Demian Roznuk (a.k.a. Rozenok; Demetri Rosicok; Demyan Rogeanok)
Born: 1887, Chernihiv Oblast, Russia (present-day Ukraine)
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Steelworker
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
His wife remained in Russia when he emigrated. Worked for Republic Iron and Steel and was on strike at the time of his arrest. Around 1919 he joined the Union of Russian Workers in Youngstown, Ohio. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919, he was deported on the Buford December 21, 1919.
Sources: INS file 54709/186.
Axel Rudolph
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An IWW member deported October 31, 1919. No further information has been found.
Sources: One Big Union Monthly, March 1920.
John C. Ruggieri (a.k.a. John C. Rogers)
Born: 1892, Rosario, Argentina
Nationality: Argentine
Ethnicity: Italian
Occupation: Bootblack; laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1906
Affiliation: IWW
Born in Argentina to Italian parents.
Immigrated to the U.S. in 1906 at the age of 14. Arrested in a raid on a San Francisco IWW hall in 1918, he denied IWW membership but acknowledged agreeing with the organization’s philosophy. On August 21, 1918, he was permitted to “reship foreign” as a sailor to Chile rather be formally deported.
Sources: INS file 54235/58.
Boris Trofinov Rusak (a.k.a. Boris Tropinav or Tropinow)
Born: c. 1895, Kryvičy, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Married his wife Efrosnia in 1914 after arriving in the U.S. the previous year, and their daughter Nadia was born in 1917. In February 1919 he joined the Union of Russian Workers in Norwich, Connecticut. Arrested February 1920, he was deported to Russia January 22, 1921.
Sources: INS file 54861/278.
Ivan Kalenikov Rusak (a.k.a. John Rusak)
Born: c. 1891, Kryvičy, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Textile worker
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
He was employed at Yantic Woolen Mills and belonged to the Norwich, Connecticut branch of the Union of Russian Workers. Arrested January 20, 1920, in Yantic, he was deported January 22, 1921, aboard the SS Stockholm.
Sources: INS file 54861/56.
Giuseppe Russo (a.k.a. Joe Russo; L’Unico; Augustus Antonio Leon)
Born: 1873, either on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean or in Chiaravelle, Italy
Nationality: Italian
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Occupation: Miner; metalworker
Migration: Immigrated to US 1897
Affiliation: Anarchist
An “anarchist without adjectives” who claimed to have been born at sea and therefore nationless, he was influenced by Max Stirner and Luigi Galleani and contributed to Cronaca Sovversiva. He lived in Tunisia, where he was imprisoned, and reportedly traveled to Asia Minor and the Balkans.
Immigrating to the United States in 1896. In 1911 he briefly joined the military forces of the Partido Liberal Mexicano in Tijuana but soon became disillusioned with the Mexican Revolution and returned to the U.S. Arrested in Lovelock, Nevada, he was deported to Italy October 1921.
He remained active in radical politics in Italy, where he was repeatedly arrested for antifascist activity. He helped smuggle antifascists out of Italy and recruited volunteers for the Spanish Civil War. Arrested again in 1937, he was confined to Ponza and Tremiti. Freed in 1943, he distributed the underground anarchist paper Era Nuova in Turin. He died in 1957.
Sources: CPC busta 4499; Maurizio Antonioli et al., eds., Dizionario biografico degli anarchici italiani.
Rustemann (first name unknown)
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An IWW member who was interned as an “aline enemy” at Fort Douglas, Utah, and later “voluntarily departed” to Germany. No further information has been found.
Sources: One Big Union Monthly, March 1920.
Daniel Ryzhukov (or Ryzoukov; Ryoukov; a.k.a. Rice; Reisch)
Born: 1885, Tolkova (Grodno), Russia
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1909
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
In 1912 he married fellow anarchist Anastasia Ryzhukova in Newark. He joined the Union of Russian Workers there in 1919. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919, he declared his distrust of all governments, including that of the United States. He was deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919, while his wife and child remained in Newark.
In 1921 he signed a manifesto of the Union of Russian Anarchist Workers Repatriated from America, which critically supported the Bolshevik regime as a temporary necessity. His wife meanwhile became severely ill and died in Newark in 1924.
Sources: INS file 54709/340; Amerikanskiye Izvestiya, August 6, 1924 (thanks to Malcolm Archibald); Victor Serge, Anarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism, 1908–1938.
Ivan Sabshuk
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Deported to Russia as a radical on February 1, 1921. No further information has been found.
Sources: INS file 54325/36G.
Cesare Saccaro (a.k.a. Caesar; Frank)
Born: 1885, Arsiè, Italy
Nationality: Italian
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Occupation: Miner
Migration: Immigrated to US 1903
Affiliation: Anarchist
In Italy he displayed “good moral conduct,” according to the Italian government, and from ages 11-18 enrolled in “a school in Verona to prepare for a monastic life.”
In 1903 he joined his father Antonio in Spring Valley, Illinois, to work in the mines and became an anarchist around 1910, sending money to anarchist newspapers in Italy. He returned to Italy in 1913 to marry Giovanna Faoro; the couple then settled again in Spring Valley, where they had a daughter in 1915. He was deported to Italy March 16, 1921.
Givoanna rejoined him in Italy, where she gave birth a son in Arsiè. In 1923 Cesare emigrated to Canada, “under threatening fascist persecutions.” His family rejoined him in Windsor, where another son was born around 1927. There he helped organize the antifascist Circolo di Coltura Operaia in 1933 and wrote for the Toronto antifascist paper Il Lavoratore. In 1936 he also published an antifascist letter in the Border Cities Star. Italian authorities still considered him an active antifascist and radical in 1945. He later illegally resettled with his family in the United States and died in Dearborn, Michigan, on May 27, 1979.
Sources: INS file 54885/17; FBI file OG 379633; CPC busta 4513; Ancestry.com.
