Emma Goldman, John Reed and the Russian Revolution
Author : Brian McComas
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Brian McComas
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Eric Homberger
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780719021947
Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 311067940X
What impact did Bolshevist rule have on Emma Goldmans’s perception of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and why did she change her mind, going from defending the Russian Revolution to becoming a crusader against Bolshevism? The Russian Revolution changed the world and determined the history of the 20th century as the French Revolution had determined the history of the 19th century. Left-wing intellectuals around the world greeted the February Revolution with enthusiasm as their hope for a new world and social order and the end of capitalism seemed close. However, the joy did not last long as the ideals of February 1917 were replaced by the realities of October 1917 and Lenin crushed the revolution during the following Civil War. Emma Goldman, a famous Russian-born American anarchist was one of the intellectuals, whose admiration for the revolution turned into frustration about its corruption. Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution discusses her evolving perception of the revolution between 1917 and the early 1920s. The analysis of such an intellectual transformation process, provides a case study of intellectual and revolutionary history alike, adding a closer reading to the research about the famous American anarchist, Emma Goldman, her transnational life and her role as a revolutionary intellectual.
Author : Eric Homberger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1992-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1349218367
Author : Granville Hicks
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Emma Goldman
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In 1919, at the height of the anti-leftist Palmer Raids conducted by the Wilson administration, the anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman was deported to the nascent Soviet Union. Despite initial plans to fight the deportation order in court, Goldman eventually acquiesced in order to take part in the new revolutionary Russia herself. While initially supportive of the Bolsheviks, with some reservations, Goldman’s firsthand experiences with Bolshevik oppression and corruption prompted her titular disillusionment and eventual emigration to Germany. In My Disillusionment in Russia, Goldman records her travels throughout Russia as part of a revolutionary museum commission, and her interactions with a variety of political and literary figures like Vladimir Lenin, Maxim Gorky, John Reed, and Peter Kropotkin. Goldman concludes her account with a critique of the Bolshevik ideology in which she asserts that revolutionary change in institutions cannot take place without corresponding changes in values. My Disillusionment in Russia had a troubled publication history, since the first American printing in 1923 omitted the last twelve chapters of what was supposed to be a thirty-three chapter book. (Somehow, the last chapters failed to reach the publisher, who did not suspect the book to be incomplete.) The situation was remedied with the publication of the remaining chapters in 1924 as part of a volume titled My Further Disillusionment in Russia. This Standard Ebooks edition compiles both volumes into a single volume, following the intent of the original manuscript.
Author : Robert A. Rosenstone
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780394751238
Author : Frank Jacob
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110679493
What impact did Bolshevist rule have on Emma Goldmans’s perception of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and why did she change her mind, going from defending the Russian Revolution to becoming a crusader against Bolshevism? The Russian Revolution changed the world and determined the history of the 20th century as the French Revolution had determined the history of the 19th century. Left-wing intellectuals around the world greeted the February Revolution with enthusiasm as their hope for a new world and social order and the end of capitalism seemed close. However, the joy did not last long as the ideals of February 1917 were replaced by the realities of October 1917 and Lenin crushed the revolution during the following Civil War. Emma Goldman, a famous Russian-born American anarchist was one of the intellectuals, whose admiration for the revolution turned into frustration about its corruption. Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution discusses her evolving perception of the revolution between 1917 and the early 1920s. The analysis of such an intellectual transformation process, provides a case study of intellectual and revolutionary history alike, adding a closer reading to the research about the famous American anarchist, Emma Goldman, her transnational life and her role as a revolutionary intellectual.
Author : Kenneth Z. Chutchian
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476637946
John Reed was one of America's most dynamic journalists during the World War I decade. An unabashed advocate for the working class and an outspoken critic of capitalism, Reed was a star reporter before his relentless crusade turned him into a target of the U.S. government. Reed set the standard for descriptive writing at labor strikes in New Jersey and Colorado, in Mexico while riding with Pancho Villa, in Germany's trenches, and in Russia. America had no shortage of rebels, socialists, anarchists and revolutionaries at that time--but with his outsized personality and command of language and audiences, Reed may have been the most dangerous rebel of them all. Neither adversaries nor allies expected Reed to go the distance (or to Russia) with his convictions. He seemed to enjoy life and merriment too much to sacrifice everything for a second American revolution. But they all underestimated the anger that fueled him, the memory of a father who sacrificed his reputation to fight white-collar crime. This career biography details Reed's extraordinary decade before his death at age 32--a chaotic period of constant movement and remarkable accomplishment--while placing him in context among those who shaped him and touching upon the people with whom he worked.
Author : Richard O'Connor
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Bohemianism
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