Biography
Ivan G. Baldenkov was born 1895 in Zvenyhorodka, Russia (present-day Ukraine). Worked as a bookkeeper, salesman, journalist. Immigrated to the United States in 1912.
Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Newark in 1915; joined the IWW in 1919; and later joined the Syracuse branch of the Communist Labor Party. Active as an IWW organizer and URW literary agent, he was arrested in 1920. While held in the Cortland County jail, he led a hunger strike of Russian radicals demanding expedited deportation. He was deported to Soviet Russia on February 1, 1921.
Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.
1920s custody review: Deported on 1921-02-01, recorded as the United States detention endpoint, not an unconditional release. The biography records arrest in 1920, detention in Cortland County jail and a hunger strike before deportation. The existing arrest year is retained; the admission day remains unknown.
Source: Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees, Ivan G. Baldenkov biography, citing the archival and historical sources listed there.