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Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and
free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous - and notorious - woman
in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her
two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist
Russia to the socialist enclaves of Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials,
imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the
epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the
Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with
Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more. Sounding a call still heard
today, "Living My Life" is a riveting account of political ferment
and ideological turbulence.
There was a general rejoicing when the regime of Tsar Nicholas II
fell in February 1917, a new era of liberty dawned. But what would
come next?This book presents sketches of encounters in the new
Russia.* Emma Goldman relates her experiences of daily life, her
meeting with Peter Kropotkin and tells the story of the life of
Maria Spiridonova, a famous SR activist who escaped from a mental
hospital where she had been locked up.* Gaston Leval and Angel
Pestana were members of a delegation from the Spanish CNT union and
reported back on what they found, especially how trade unions
functioned with policeman keeping order in union meetings. Armando
Borghi tells of a meeting with Victor Serge.* Jack Wilkens wrote a
series of articles for the French journal Le Libertaire. They tell
of how Soviets functioned, of how workers live, of working
conditions for men and women and of rural life
This anthology draws together essays, interviews and pamphlets
exploring the relationship between anarchism and feminism.
Powerful, penetrating, prophetic essays on direct action, role of minorities, prison reform, puritan hypocrisy, violence, etc.
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