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?
191 7 offers a unique alternative perspective on the early years of the Russian Revolution through the narrative perspective of these three eyewitnesses. Featuring 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.

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Emma Goldman; Alexander Berkman; Murray Bookchin; Ida Mett; Dan Georgakas

Canada - English Language, Canada

Nov 15, 2018

1, PT, 2018

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Source title: 1917: Revolution in Russia and its Aftermath

"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

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
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
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
EMMA GOLDMAN, Biographical Sketch
ALEXANDER BERKMAN, Biographical Sketch
IDA METT, Biographical Sketch

My Disillusionment In Russia / Emma Goldman -- The Russian Tragedy / Alexander Berkman -- The Kronstadt Uprising / Ida Mett -- When The Ice Melts / Dan Georgakas -- Postscript 1, 1917 On The Brain / Thomas Jeffrey Miley -- Postscript 2, 1917 And After / Dimitrios Roussopoulos. [emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Murray Bookchin, Ida Mett ; With An Introductory Poem By Dan Georgakas]. Includes Bibliographical References. Issued Also In Electronic Format.

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