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  • An American Anarchist

    The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre

    by Paul Avrich ...
    “An American Anarchist closes a major gap in our understanding of American an- archism and particularly a gap in our understanding of its deep roots in American radicalism. It makes the same contribution to our understanding of American feminism.” —Richard Drinnon, author of Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman"Paul Avrich's book is very well researched—it fascinated me as I am sure it ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sasha and Emma

    The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman

    by Paul Avrich, Karen Avrich ...
    This "lively" dual biography is "an enormously rich book, offering an absorbing portrait of the world of anarchists in turn-of-the-century America" ( The New York Times Book Review).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 ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Russian Anarchists

    by Paul Avrich ...
    Paul Avrich’s The Russian Anarchists records the history and ideas of Russian anarchism from the 19th century through to its brutal suppression by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s. All the major personalities are discussed in detail: Bakunin, Kropotkin, Baron, Rogdaev, Chernyi, Makhno, Volin, Shapiro, Maksimov. The well-documented study includes comprehensive end notes, a chronology and an annotated ... Read more

    $8.19 USD

  • Anarchist Voices

    An Oral History of Anarchism in America - Abridged paperback Edition

    by Paul Avrich ...
    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 ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The Haymarket Tragedy

    by Paul Avrich ...
    This is the first paperback edition of a moving appraisal of the infamous Haymarket bombing (May 1886) and the trial that followed it--a trial that was a cause célèbre in the 1880s and that has since been recognized as one of the most unjust in the annals of American jurisprudence. Paul Avrich shows how eight anarchists who were blamed for the bombing at a workers' meeting near Chicago's Haymarket ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • The first Mayday

    The Haymarket Speeches 1895-1910

    by Voltairine de Cleyre, Paul Avrich ...
    On 1 May 1886, 800,000 workers from all trades and factories throughout the US went on strike in support of the eight-hour working day. In Chicago, a stronghold of immigrant labour and anarchists, 300,000 workers struck and marched through the city streets in a huge display of proletarian power. Before the Chicago May Day strike action began, the management at McCormick Machine Co. (now ... Read more

    $2.66 USD

  • BAKUNIN'S LEGACY

    by Paul Avrich ...
    What are these ideas that have proved so relevant in the twentieth century—more so, perhaps, than in Bakunin’s own time? Above all, Bakunin foresaw the true nature of modern revolution more clearly than any of his contemporaries, Marx not excepted. For Marx the socialist revolution required the emergence of a well-organized and class-conscious proletariat, something to be expected in highly ... Read more

    $5.46 USD

  • Anarchist Portraits

    by Paul Avrich ...
    From the celebrated Russian intellectuals Michael Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin to the little-known Australian bootmaker and radical speaker J. W. Fleming, this book probes the lives and personalities of representative anarchists. ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Sacco and Vanzetti

    The Anarchist Background

    by Paul Avrich ...
    The Sacco-Vanzetti affair is the most famous and controversial case in American legal history. It divided the nation in the 1920s, and it has continued to arouse deep emotions, giving rise to an enormous literature. Few writers, however, have consulted anarchist sources for the wealth of information available there about the movement of which the defendants were a part. Now Paul Avrich, the ... Read more

    $31.69 USD