Through his many books on the history of anarchism, Paul Avrich has done much to dispel the public's conception of the anarchists as mere terrorists. In Anarchist Voices, Avrich lets American anarchists speak for themselves. This abridged edition contains fifty-three interviews conducted by Avrich over a period of thirty years, interviews that portray the human dimensions of a movement much maligned by the authorities and contemporary journalists. Most of the interviewees (anarchists as well as their friends and relatives) were active during the heyday of the movement, between the 1880s and the 1930s. They represent all schools of anarchism and include both famous figures and minor ones, previously overlooked by most historians. Their stories provide a wealth of personal detail about such anarchist luminaries as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti.
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"Avrich shows that anarchists were much more than black-caped figures with fizzing bombs, but at the same time he does not try to sanitize them. He makes it quite clear, for example, that Sacco and Vanzetti were disciples of Luigi Galleani, who favored bomb and dynamite attacks on capitalists, and that they were active members of terrorist conspiracies."--The Times Literary Supplement "[Avrich takes] a utilitarian approach to oral history as a kind of backup for missing archival sources ... [and] achieves some wonderful results."--Paul Buhle, The Nation "This gracefully edited study should interest all students of American radicalism... "--Choice "A vital contribution to the history of the American left."--Library Journal "One of the most valuable records of anarchism ever published... The cumulative effect is an astonishing kaleidoscope of policies and personalities unobtrusively revolved before our eyes."--Nicolas Walter, The Times Higher Education Supplement
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Abridged paperback Edition
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-0-691-04494-1 (9780691044941)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Paul Avrich is Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate School, the City University of New York. His books include Anarchist Portraits and The Haymarket Tragedy, published by Princeton University Press.
List Of Illustrations vii Preface and Acknowledgments ix PART ONE: PIONEERS Introduction 3 Oriole Tucker Riche 8 Alexandra Kropotkin 11 John J. Most, Jr. 13 MarySchwab 14 Grace Umrath 16 Brigitte Hausberger 20 Fermin Rocker 24 PART TWO: EMMA GOLDMAN Introduction 31 Freda Diamond 37 Luba Stein Benenson 41 Roger N. Baldwin 42 Gabriel Javsicas 46 Ida Gershoy 48 Millie Grobstein 51 Ahrne Thorne 54 PART THREE: SACCO AND VANZETTI Introduction 61 George T Kelley 66 Beltrando Brini 67 Joseph Moro 71 Bartolomeo Provo 75 Sara R. Ehrmarnn 79 William Gallo 81 Frank Brand 84 Attillio Bortolotti 91 PART FOUR: SCHOOLS AND COLONIES Introduction 107 Manuel Komroff 112 Maurice Hollod 116 Charles Plunkett 121 Emma Gilbert 126 Eva Bein 130 David Dadisman 160 Philip Trupin 162 Suzanne Hotkine Avins 133 Jo Ann Burbank 136 Ben Lieberman 140 Eva Brandes 142 Nellie Dick 149 Macie Pope158 Louis A. Gittelman 165 PART FIVE: ETHNIC ANARCHISTS Introduction 171 Sam Dreen 176 Lena Shlakman 180 Bessie Zoglin 183 Clara Halpern 186 Morris Schulmeister 192 VictorLynn 197 Morris Ganberg 201 Mark Mratchny 206 Marcelino Garcia 210 Juan Anido 212 H. L. Wei 214 PART SIX: THE 1920s AND AFTER Introduction 219 Sam Dolgoff 223 Jack Frager 233 Abe Bluestein237 Louis Genin 241 Fred Woodworth 245 Anne McVey 247 Notes 249 List of Periodicals 285 Further Reading 293 Index 299
