Anarchist Portraits
ISBN 0-691-04753-7 | |
Anarchist Portraits is a 1988 history book by Paul Avrich about the lives and personalities of multiple prominent and inconspicuous anarchists.
Summary and publication
Anarchist Portraits is a series of biographical studies about the
The essay's anarchist subjects are largely European emigrants to the United States, such as
A new essay on Jewish anarchism in America covers the anarchist movement among East European Jewish immigrants between the 1880s and 1890s. It includes the working class movement in Jewish garment unions, the creation of housing communes and experimental schools, the Yiddish periodical Fraye Arbeter Shtime, and the influence of Kropotkin.[4]
His essay on Sacco and Vanzetti shows the influence of the Luigi Galleani, an anarchist who avocated for violent revolt against capitalism and government. Avrich contends that Sacco and Vanzetti were part of an insurrectionary movement belied by the innocent image their supporters projected, but admits no direct evidence of their participation.[3]
References
- ^ a b Buhle 1989, p. 958.
- ^ Wexler 1993, p. 538.
- ^ a b Wexler 1993, pp. 537–538.
- ^ Wexler 1993, p. 537.
Works cited
- S2CID 164303759.
- JSTOR 2936510.
- JSTOR 130392.
- ISSN 0196-4801.
- Dolgoff, Sam (1989). "Rev. of Anarchist Portraits" (PDF). Libertarian Labor Review (7): 38–39.
- ISSN 0362-4331.
- ISSN 0190-8286.
- JSTOR 2164297.
- JSTOR 27500850.
- EBSCOhost 9406150243.
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