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Living my Life, Vol 2 | 
 enlarge | Author: Emma Goldman
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 508
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 6.7 x 1
ISBN: 0486225445
Dewey Decimal Number: 335.830924
EAN: 9780486225449
ASIN: 0486225445
Publication Date: February 1971
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Freedom's record August 12, 2008
Paul Kirby
An astounding and compelling document. Rich in illuminating historical detail, Goldman's diaries render palpable the struggles, personalities and contradictions of anarchism across the borders of the twentieth century. Meetings with Kropotkin, Lenin, Gorki, the upper strata of Bolsheviki and a lifetime of comradeship with Sasha Berkman - all written with grace and honesty. But this also has immense value as a political record - of the capacity of some to think critically and with a universal humanism while others were making Fascist fantasies concrete. Goldman and Berkman saw the manipulation and authoritarian heart of Leninism first hand, understood the crushing of the Soviets for what it was, and came back to tell everyone about the lie. That was in 1921. If progressive leftists didn't know, it's because they didn't want to. Read it.
a life to be celebrated July 27, 2007
Belmiro Vilela (Barcelona, Spain)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The autobiography of one of the most fascinating people I have ever heard about.
A woman that was always true to herself in a period (late 19th and early 20th century) when everything was against her, being russian, a woman, a prominent anarchist, a communist, an activist for labour and human rights, a syndicalist and a believer in free-love, birthcontrol and freedom.
A fascinating book from an extremely competent propagandist.
THE GREATEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY EVER!! January 26, 2006
H S Marks (Manchester UK)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
The single most important autobiography in the English language make sure you get VOLUME 1. Amazon really needs to link the two volumes for single purchase convenience.
THE GREATEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY EVER!! January 26, 2006
H S Marks (Manchester UK)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The single most important autobiography in the English language make sure you get VOLUME 2.
A unique window into left radicalism before 1917 April 7, 2005
Graeme Harker (London, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Emma Goldman was one of America's first feminists and a contemporary of John Reed, the guy made famous by Warren Beatty's 1981 movie "Reds". If you've seen the movie and you want to get beyond the Hollywood gloss or if you want to understand what motivated the early radicals then read this book. The story starts with Emma as a young immigrant in NYC, which is a vivid first-hand account of the radical battles of the late 19th century in the USA; abortion, contraception, housing, workers' rights. The book is also a fascinating insight into the disputes within the radical movement before the movement was irrevocably shaken by the Russian revolution which split the movement for a century. After the Soviet revolution, loathed by the American establishment, she is deported to the young Soviet Russia nominally for her opposition to forced conscription during the First World War. The acccount of her experience in Russia is also fascinating. She arrives a believer but leaves in '21 as a disillusioned and active critic of the Bolsheviks. Anyone seriously interested in the history and origins of radical politics and the labour movement would be well advised to read this unique two-book autobiography.
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