1917 : revolution in Russia and its aftermath / Emma Goldman [and four others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--Soviet Union.

Communism.

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Personal narratives.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 pages)

Other Title:

One thousand nine hundred seventeen

Place of Publication:

Montréal : Black Rose Books, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

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 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

POSTSCRIPT 2, 1917 AND AFTER by Dimitrios Roussopoulos

EMMA GOLDMAN, Biographical Sketch

ALEXANDER BERKMAN, Biographical Sketch

IDA METT, Biographical Sketch.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781551646664

1551646668

OCLC:

1035314174