Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America - Abridged paperback Edition / Edition 1

by Paul Avrich

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691044941
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	07/28/1996
Edition description:	Abridged paperback Edition
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"[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

From the Publisher

"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

"This gracefully edited study should interest all students of American radicalism. . . ."

Choice

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

[Avrich takes] a utilitarian approach to oral history as a kind of backup for missing archival sources ... [and] achieves some wonderful results.

The Nation - Paul Buhle

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.

The Times Higher Education Supplement - Nicolas Walter

[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