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

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.

Reviews

"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 "[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 "This gracefully edited study should interest all students of American radicalism... "--Choice "A vital contribution to the history of the American left."--Library Journal "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 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 "[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 "This gracefully edited study should interest all students of American radicalism... "--Choice "A vital contribution to the history of the American left."--Library Journal "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

The 180 interviewees in this oral history (mostly anarchists, but also their friends, associates and relatives) represent diverse political tendencies-individualists, collectivists, pacifists, revolutionaries. What unites them is an optimistic faith that people will live in harmony once the impositions of government disappear. The respondents give firsthand recollections of Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Sacco and Vanzetti and other key anarchists; describe their experiences in libertarian schools and colonies; and offer trenchant observations on the dangers of authoritarian communism, bureaucracy and entrenched institutions. Among those interviewed are self-proclaimed ``philosophical anarchist'' Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; Daniel Guérin, historian of the U.S. labor movement; Alexandra Kropotkin, English-born daughter of Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin; Albert Boni, publisher of ``Modern Library'' classics and a socialist; and Dwight Macdonald, who launched the journal Politics in 1944. Avrich (The Haymarket Tragedy) profiles a movement that continues to exercise an appeal with its calls for self-determination, direct grass-roots action and voluntary cooperation. (Feb.)