Emma Goldman in exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War - Hardcover

Wexler, Alice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807070041 ISBN 13: 9780807070048

Publisher: Beacon Press, 1989

Synopsis

Looks at the life of the Lithuanian-born anarchist during the twenty years after she was deported from the U.S. to Russia, and describes her disillusionment with the Soviet system

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From Publishers Weekly:

Flamboyant anarchist Emma Goldman generally is considered a prescient critic of Soviet authoritarianism, which she observed firsthand when the U.S. government deported her to Russia in 1919. But Wexler ( Emma Goldman in America ) argues that the disillusioned radical's greatly exaggerated portrayal of an enslaved, terrorized U.S.S.R. resulted from her homesickness, disorientation and the shattering of her anarchist ideals. Furthermore, Wexler blames the anti-Stalinist Goldman for contributing to the Cold War stereotype of communism as a monolithic evil. This remarkably vivid biographical study follows "Red Emma" from her exile with comrade-lover Alexander Berkman to her death in Toronto in 1940. It traces her activities in the Spanish Civil War, where she briefly felt a sense of belonging, and her trip to the U.S. in 1934. Bertrand Russell, Paul Robeson, Frank Harris and Peggy Guggenheim figure in the story. Wexler's clear-eyed, dispassionate portrait brings a self-mythologizing woman into focus. Photos.
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From Library Journal:

A portrait of anarchist Emma Goldman that takes up the story where Wexler's Emma Goldman: An Intimate Biography left off--when Goldman was deported from the United States. Of the earlier book our reviewer said, "it captures the complexity of Goldman's personality" ( LJ 9/15/84).-- MR
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About this edition

• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0807070041
• ISBN 13: 9780807070048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 301