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Item Details
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THE BOLSHEVIK MYTH
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| By: |
Alexander Berkman, Nicolas Walter |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1853050326 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781853050329 |
| Publisher: |
PLUTO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1987 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
This book provides first-hand documentation of events in the Soviet Union when the Civil War was ending and Bolshevik regime was consolidating its position. The author was an American anarchist of Russian origin deported to Russia in 1919. The book is based on his diaries written between 1919-21. |
| Synopsis: |
When Alexander Berkman (1870-1936) - a leading American anarchist of Russian origin - returned to Russia in 1919, he was welcomed as a hero by the Bolshevik regime. Berkman and his companion and comrade Emma Goldman - having been deported from the United States for their anti-war activities, and fired with revolutionary enthusiasm - were determined to work for the Russian Revolution. "The Bolshevik Myth--first published in 1925--is Berkman's account of the two years he spent in the Soviet Union, his meetings with Lenin, Trotsky, Kropotkin, and above all with the Russian people, the ordinary men and women who were suffering hunger, disease and persecution. It is the story of chaos, bureaucratic incompetence and economic ruin. A story of warring revolutionary factions, barbarism, repression and fear, leading to the author's complete disillusionment with the Bolshevik system. In his new biographical introduction, Nicolas Walter, quoting from contemporary publications and unpublished manuscript sources, compares "The Bolshevik Myth with Berkman's diary from the period - on which the published book is based - and examines some of the complications of Berkman's relationship with Emma Goldman, whose writings he edited. This edition includes too, the conclusion to the book, left out of the original publication, as the publisher deemed it an 'Anti-Climax'. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Pluto Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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