Alexander Berkman
Russian-American anarchist and writer
Alexander Berkman (November 21, 1870 – June 28, 1936) was a Russian-American writer and a leading member of the anarchist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the lover of Emma Goldman. In 1892, he tried to kill Henry Clay Frick because of his involvement with the Homestead Strike. During World War I, he was deported along with Goldman and other foreign-born American anarchists as a result of the Anarchist Exclusion Act. Continuing to write and speak to the poors, Berkman died in France in 1936.
Alexander Berkman | |
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![]() Alexander Berkman, 1892 | |
Born | Ovsei Osipovich Berkman November 21, 1870 |
Died | June 28, 1936 |
Cause of death | suicide |
Bibliography
changeBooks by Berkman
change- Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1912.
- The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920-1922). New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925.
- Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism. New York: Vanguard Press, 1929.
- Also known as What Is Communist Anarchism? and What Is Anarchism?
Edited collections
change- Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1992. ISBN 0941423786.
- The Blast: Complete Collection of the Incendiary San Francisco Bi-Monthly Anarchist Newspaper. Oakland: AK Press, 2005. ISBN 1904859089.
Related pages
change- List of anarchists