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Authors: Paul Avrich
ISBN-13: 9780691006093, ISBN-10: 0691006091
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: February 1990
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: Paul Avrich

Book Synopsis

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.

Colman McCarthy - Washington Post Book World

Believers in anarchism, along with those willing to probe beyond the rote dismissals of the creed as a violent tumult, have a rare intellectual feast in Avrich's work.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsix
Prefacexi
Part IRussia
1The Legacy of Bakunin5
2Bakunin and the United States16
3Bakunin and Nechaev32
4Kropotkin's Ethical Anarchism53
5Kropotkin in America79
6Stormy Petrel: Anatoli Zhelezniakov107
7Nestor Makhno: The Man and the Myth111
8V. M. Eikhenbaum (Volin): The Man and His Book125
Part IIAmerica
9Proudhon and America137
10Benjamin Tucker and His Daughter144
11C. W. Mowbray: A British Anarchist in America153
12Sacco and Vanzetti: The Italian Anarchist Background162
13Jewish Anarchism in the United States176
14Alexander Berkman: A Sketch200
15Ricardo Flores Magon in Prison208
16Mollie Steimer: An Anarchist Life214
Part IIIEurope and the World
17The Paris Commune and Its Legacy229
18Paul Brousse: The Possibilist Anarchist240
19The Martyrdom of Gustav Landauer247
20Brazilian Anarchists255
21An Australian Anarchist: J. W. Fleming260
Notes269
Index303

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