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Anarchist Portraits (Paperback)
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Anarchist Portraits (Paperback)
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Everyman's book of anarchists - a collection of thumbnail
biographies, with enough discussion of writings and philosophies to
make clear the wide spectrum and unabashed idealism of the
anarchist movement. Avrich (Queens College/History; The Haymarket
Tragedy; The Russian Anarchists; Kronstadt 1921) is clearly moved
by his subject; reading his sketches of these "saints without god,"
many others will find it hard not to be moved as well. With the
stories of the major Russian anarchists (Bakunin, Kropotkin, and
others), key figures in the history of American radicalism (such as
Mollie Steiner, Alexander Berkman, and Sacco and Vanzetti) on
through lesser-known Mexican, French, and Australian anarchists,
Avrich creates, piece by piece, a real feeling for a time when the
West was full of revolutionary ferment, and a decentralized,
communal, anarchist society was something that might really happen.
Though scholarly and dense with information, his prose is always
accessible, and the book is filled with well-chosen, telling, even
charming anecdotes. (While he goes a long way toward correcting the
misbegotten, but still popular, image of the anarchist as a
bomb-throwing madman, and he doesn't leave out the warts -
Bakunin's anti-Semitism; Nachaev, the cold-hearted murderer -
there's something quaint about these portraits, and he risks making
them seem no longer relevant, like sepia-tinted photographs.) A
fine introduction to anarchy for anyone with a little historical
background; for the confirmed radical, a good source of information
and inspiration. (Kirkus Reviews)
From the celebrated Russian intellectuals Michael Bakunin and
Peter Kropotkin to the little-known Australian bootmaker and
radical speaker J. W. Fleming, this book probes the lives and
personalities of representative anarchists.
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