Sasha and Emma : The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman / Karen Avrich, Paul Avrich.
Avrich, Paul , author.; Avrich, Karen, author.
2012
HX843.5 .A97 2012eb
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Title Sasha and Emma : The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman / Karen Avrich, Paul Avrich.
Author Avrich, Paul , author.
ISBN 9780674067677
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067677
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 36 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674067677 doi
Call Number HX843.5 .A97 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 335 .83092273 B
Summary In 1889 two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and Sasha would be fast friends, fleeting lovers, and loyal comrades. This dual biography offers an unprecedented glimpse into their intertwined lives, the lasting influence of the anarchist movement they shaped, and their unyielding commitment to equality and justice. Berkman shocked the country in 1892 with "the first terrorist act in America," the failed assassination of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick for his crimes against workers. Passionate and pitiless, gloomy yet gentle, Berkman remained Goldman's closest confidant though the two were often separated-by his fourteen-year imprisonment and by Emma's growing fame as the champion of a multitude of causes, from sexual liberation to freedom of speech. The blazing sun to Sasha's morose moon, Emma became known as "the most dangerous woman in America." Through an attempted prison breakout, multiple bombing plots, and a dramatic deportation from America, these two unrelenting activists insisted on the improbable ideal of a socially just, self-governing utopia, a vision that has shaped movements across the past century, most recently Occupy Wall Street. Sasha and Emma is the culminating work of acclaimed historian of anarchism Paul Avrich. Before his death, Avrich asked his daughter to complete his magnum opus. The resulting collaboration, epic in scope, intimate in detail, examines the possibilities and perils of political faith and protest, through a pair who both terrified and dazzled the world.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
PROLOGUE
Part 1. IMPELLING FORCES
1 MOTHER RUSSIA
2 PIONEERS OF LIBERTY
3 THE TRIO
4 AUTONOMISTS
5 HOMESTEAD
6 ATTENTAT
7 JUDGMENT
8 BURIED ALIVE
9 BLACKWELL'S AND BRADY
10 THE TUNNEL
11 RED EMMA
12 THE ASSASSINATION OF McKINLEY
13 E. G. SMITH
Part II. PALACES OF THE RICH
14 RESURRECTION
15 THE WINE OF SUNSHINE AND LIBERTY
16 THE INSIDE STORY OF SOME EXPLOSIONS
17 TROUBLE IN PARADISE
18 THE BLAST
19 THE GREAT WAR
20 BIG FISH
Part III. OPEN EYES
21 THE RUSSIAN DREAM
22 THE BOLSHEVIK MYTH
23 CHARLOTTENGRAD
24 GLOBE-TROTTERS AND COLONIZERS
25 NOW AND AFTER
26 BON ESPRIT
27 PILLAR TO POST
28 OLD GLORY
29 NOTHING BUT DEATH CAN END
30 WALDHEIM
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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