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Lithuanian born anarchist Emma Goldman emmigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. She first became attracted to anarchism following the Haymarket affair of 1886, a massacre in which seven police officers and an unknown number of civilians were killed during a march of striking Chicago workers. Eight anarchists were subsequently tried for murder. "Anarchism and Other Essays" is a collection of essays first published in 1911. The volume includes the following essays: Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, Minorities Versus Majorities, The Psychology of Political Violence, Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure, Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty, Francisco Ferrer and The Modern School, The Hypocrisy of Puritanism, The Traffic in Women, Woman Suffrage, The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation, Marriage and Love, and The Drama: A Powerful Dissimenator of Radical Thought.

Emma Goldman's most important essays now available in a budget edition. Essential reading for anyone interested in anarchist thought and Goldman's unique contribution to it.

В начале прошлого века по популярности Эмма Гольдман могла сравниться с современной рок-звездой. Она собирала тысячи людей на митингах, ездила в лекционные туры по Америке и Европе, участвовала в забастовках, неоднократно подвергалась арестам и тюремным заключениям. Её пламенные речи о патриотизме, государстве, политических заключённых и эмансипации женщин горячо воспринимались публикой и регулярно срывались полицией. Эта женщина осуществила все радикальные идеи за сто лет до того, как они зародились в вашей голове, и знала всех, с кем стоило познакомиться в то время.

In the 1890s and for years thereafter, America reverberated with the name of the «notorious Anarchist,» feminist, revolutionist, and agitator, Emma Goldberg. A Russian Jewish immigrant at the age of 17, she moved by her own efforts from seamstress in a clothing factory to internationally known radical lecturer, writer, editor, and friend of the oppressed. This book is a collection of her remarkably penetrating essays, far in advance of their time, originally published by the Mother Earth press which she founded.In the first of these essays, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For, she says, «Direct action, having proven effective along economic lines, is equally potent in the environment of the individual.» In Minorities Versus Majorities she holds that social and economic well-being will result only through «the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.» Other pieces deal with The Hypocrisy of Puritanism; Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure; The Psychology of Political Violence; The Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought; Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty; and The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation. A biographical sketch by Hippolyte Havel precedes the essays.Anarchism and Other Essays provides a fascinating look into revolutionary issues at the turn of the century, a prophetic view of the social and economic future, much of which we have seen take place, and above all, a glimpse into the mind of an extraordinary woman: brilliant, provocative, dedicated, passionate, and what used to be called «high-minded.»

“You damn bitch of an anarchist, I wish I could get at you. I would tear your heart out and feed it to my dog.” This was one of the less obscene messages received by Emma Goldman (1869-1940), while in jail on suspicion of complicity in the assassination of McKinley. The most notorious woman of her day, she was bitterly hated by millions and equally revered by millions.The strong feelings she aroused are understandable. She was an alien, a practicing anarchist, a labor agitator, a pacifist in World War 1, an advocate of political violence, a feminist, a proponent of free love and birth control, a communist, a street-fighter for justice — all of which she did with strong intellect and boundless passion. Today, of course, many of the issues that she fought over are just as vital as they were then.Emma Goldman came from Russia at the age of 17. After an encounter with the sweatshop and an unfortunate marriage, she plunged into the bewildering intellectual and activist chaos that attended American social evolution around the turn of the twentieth century. She knew practically everyone of importance in radical circles. She dominated many areas of the radical movement, lecturing, writing, haranguing, and publishing to awaken the world to her ideas. After World War I she was deported to Russia, where she soon discovered that anarchists were no better liked than in America, despite Lenin’s first gesture of welcome. She escaped with her life but never was allowed to return to the United States.Emma Goldman was a devastatingly honest woman, who spared herself as little as she spared anyone else. From her account the reader can gain insight into a curious personality type of recurrent interest: a woman who devoted her life to eliminating suffering, yet could make a bomb or assist in staging an assassination. Equally interesting are her comments on other radicals of the period, such as Kropotkin, Berkman, Mooney, Lenin, Trotsky, Haywood, Most, the Haymarket martyrs, and many others. Her autobiography, written with vigor, ranks among the finest in the English language.

Первый русскоязычный перевод эссе Эммы Гольдман «Вольтерина де Клер», впервые опубликованного в 1932 году издательством The Oriole Press в Беркли-Хайс в Нью-Джерси и посвященного одной из самых выдающихся мыслительниц Америки.
Эмма Гольдман создает портрет Вольтерины де Клер многомерно, сложно и сразу в нескольких проекциях: историко-политической — позволяющей охватить взглядом контекст ее личностного становления, воспитания и поворотных моментов судьбы; психологической — позволяющей понять ее характер, темперамент и поступки; экзистенциальной — раскрывающей панораму сложного внутреннего пути и поисков, тонкого мироощущения и собственных способов пребывания среди языка, природы и других людей. Интересно раскрытие гендерной проекции, проясняющей катастрофы и раны не только личной и глубоко интимной, но и социальной жизни Вольтерины де Клер.
Эмма Гольдман много обращается к фрагментам ее очерков, дневников и стихотворений, приглашая нас удивляться их художественной насыщенности, ницшеанской напряженности и выразительности, неповторимости на фоне общеизвестных анархистских дискурсов начала ХХ века.

My Disillusionment in Russia was published in 1923 by Doubleday, Page & Co. The book was based on a much longer manuscript entitled My Two Years in Russia which was an eyewitness account of events in Russia from 1920 to 1921 that ensued in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and which culminated in the Kronstadt rebellion. Long-concerned about developments with the Bolsheviks, Goldman described the rebellion as the “final wrench. I saw before me the Bolshevik State, formidable, crushing every constructive revolutionary effort, suppressing, debasing, and disintegrating everything” Much to Goldman’s dismay, only upon receiving the first printed copies of the book did she become aware that the publisher had changed the title; and the last twelve chapters were entirely missing, including an Afterword which Goldman felt was “the most vital part” of the book. Sympathetic to the initial Russian Revolution, the complete book, presented by this edition, in thirty-two chapter and an Afterword, is nonetheless a strong and impassioned left critique of the Bolshevik Revolution as well as Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy—an “all-powerful, centralized Government with State Capitalism as its economic expression.” The complete book is also critical of Marxian theory, which Goldman describes as “a cold, mechanistic, enslaving formula.”

Кронштадтское восстание 1921 г. стало одним из последних ярких всплесков борьбы за подлинную власть Советов и социализм в ходе Российской революции. В сборник вошли важнейшие тексты о Кронштадте, написанные в 1920–1970-е гг. анархистами и левыми коммунистами. Среди авторов — анархисты Александр Беркман, Ида Метт, Эмма Гольдман, Андре Прюдоммо, Мюррей Букчин, лидер кронштадтских моряков Степан Петриченко, левые коммунисты Виктор Серж и Антэ Цилига. Эти работы не только исчерпывающе описывают события и контекст восстания, но также во многом определили ход международной дискуссии о причинах, сущности и значении этого события. Восстание рассматривалось как проявление революционной инициативы снизу, а его подавление — как поворотный момент, после которого произошла окончательная консолидация диктаторского большевистского режима. Практически все представленные в сборнике тексты публикуются по-русски впервые.

Вниманию читателей предлагается сборник эссе Эммы Гольдман - всемирно известного активиста анархистского движения, теоретика анархизма и феминизма. В ее работах подвергнуты анализу основополагающие принципы анархистской теории, трактуемой в духе синтеза либертарного коммунизма и отдельных положений анархического индивидуализма; дан глубокий анализ последовательно отвергаемой анархистами идеологии патриотизма. Критически рассматриваются институты демократического общества: парламентаризм, избирательная система, юстиция, тюремные (исправительные) учреждения. В контексте современных дискуссий представляет интерес взгляд Эммы Гольдман на природу политического насилия.

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