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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- MY DISILLUSIONMENT IN RUSSIA -- Preface To First Volume of American Edition -- Preface To Second Volume of American Edition -- I -- Deportation to Russia -- II -- Petrograd -- III -- Disturbing Thoughts -- IV -- Moscow: First Impressions -- V -- Meeting People -- VI -- Preparing For American Deportees -- VII -- Rest Homes for Workers -- VIII -- The First of May in Petrograd -- IX -- Industrial Militarization -- X -- The British Labour Mission -- XI -- A Visit from the Ukraina -- XII -- Beneath the Surface -- XIII -- Joining the Museum of the Revolution |
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XIV -- Petropavlovsk and Schlüsselburg -- XV -- The Trade Unions -- XVI -- Maria Spiridonova -- XVII -- Another Visit to Peter Kropotkin -- XVIII -- En Route -- XIX -- In Kharkov -- XX -- Poltava -- XXI -- Kiev -- XXII -- Odessa -- XXIII -- Returning to Moscow -- XXIV -- Back in Petrograd -- XXV -- Archangel and Return -- XXVI -- Death and Funeral of Peter Kropotkin -- XXVII -- Kronstadt -- XXVIII -- Persecution of Anarchists -- XXIX -- Travelling Salesmen of the Revolution -- XXX -- Education and Culture -- XXXI -- Exploiting the Famine -- XXXII -- The Socialist Republic Resorts to Deportation |
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XXXIII -- Afterword -- THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY -- INTRODUCTION -- FOREWORD -- THE RUSSIAN TRAGEDY -- THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY -- THE KRONSTADT REBELLION -- THE KRONSTADT UPRISING -- INTRODUCTION BY MURRAY BOOKCHIN -- PREFACE TO SOLIDARITY EDITION -- INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH EDITION -- THE KRONSTADT EVENTS -- WHAT THEY SAID AT THE TIME -- KRONSTADT: LAST UPSURGE OF THE SOVIETS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WHEN THE ICE MELTS by Dan Georgakas -- POSTSCRIPT 1, 1917 ON THE BRAIN by Thomas Jeffrey Miley -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- POSTSCRIPT 2, 1917 AND AFTER by Dimitrios Roussopoulos |
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EMMA GOLDMAN, Biographical Sketch -- ALEXANDER BERKMAN, Biographical Sketch -- IDA METT, Biographical Sketch |
| Summary |
"Upon their scandalous deportation from the United States in 1919, famous anarchist writers and activists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were greeted like heroes by the new Bolshevik government in Russia. Berkman described it as "the most sublime day of my life." And yet he would flee the country after only two years. Belarus-born Ida Mett, who went through a similar experience at the time, also wrote a harrowing account of the Red Army's brutal massacre at the Kronstadt Uprising before she too went into exile. How did each of these figures become so deeply disillusioned with Russia so quickly? And why, within a few years, did they all leave the country forever? 1917 offers a unique alternative perspective on the early years of the Russian Revolution through the narrative perspective of these three eyewitnesses. Goldman and Berkman's books My Disillusionment in Russia and The Russian Tragedy, printed here together for the first time, trace their shared frustration with the revolution's descent from an authentic people's movement to a spectacle of Bolshevik authoritarian violence. Ida Mett's Krondstadt Uprising rounds out the perspective, with an introduction by Murray Bookchin. This book emphasizes the rarely discussed anarchist hopes for a democratic October revolution, while also critiquing the increasingly authoritarian responses of Bolshevik leaders at the time. Published for the centennial of the Russian revolutions,1917 contains four essays by Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Ida Mett, and Bookchin, as well as a poem by Dan Georgakas, that analyze, assess, celebrate, and bemoan both the wild successes and the bitter failures of the revolution. Includes biographical sketches as well as postscripts by Cambridge sociologist Thomas Jeffrey Miley and publisher and activist Dimitri Roussopoulos."-- From publisher's website |
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Communism -- Soviet Union.
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Communism
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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Personal narratives
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Soviet Union
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History
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Personal narratives
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Container of (work): Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940.
My disillusionment in Russia
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Georgakas, Dan, writer of introduction.
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Berkman, Alexander, 1870-1936, author.
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Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940, author.
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Mett, Ida, author.
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Bookchin, Murray, 1921-2006, author.
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| ISBN |
1551646668 |
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9781551646664 |
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