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My disillusionment in Russia

My disillusionment in Russia

Biography & MemoirEssays
Pages
263
Published
1923
Language
English

Synopsis

Emma Goldman's 'My Disillusionment in Russia' offers an eyewitness account of Russia from 1920 to 1921, following the 1917 Russian Revolution. Originally a longer manuscript, the book details Goldman's growing dismay with the Bolshevik State, culminating in her critique of the Kronstadt rebellion and Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy. This complete edition presents an impassioned left critique of the Bolshevik Revolution and Marxian theory, which Goldman found to be a 'cold, mechanistic, enslaving formula.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

InformativeReflectiveComplexIntellectual
Fish Out of WaterBetrayal

Genres

Biography & Memoir Essays History Politics & Society

About the author

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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (June 27 [O.S. June 15], 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Kovno, Russian Empire (now Kaunas, Lithuania) to a Jewish family, Goldman emigrated to the United States in 1885. Attracted to anarchism after the Chicago Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist ph...