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My Disillusionment in Russia
章节(35)
- Preface to First Volume of American Edition 0:00
- Preface to Second Volume of American Edition 20:55
- I: Deportation to Russia 32:13
- II: Petrograd 45:04
- III: Disturbing Thoughts 59:12
- IV: Moscow: First Impressions 1:12:32
- V: Meeting People 1:31:05
- VI: Preparing for American Deportees 1:44:25
- VII: Rest Homes for Workers 1:57:12
- VIII: The First of May in Petrograd 2:05:29
- IX: Industrial Militarization 2:12:05
- X: The British Labour Mission 2:25:35
- XI: A Visit from the Ukraine 2:29:39
- XII: Beneath the Surface 2:45:40
- XIII: Joining the Museum of the Revolution 2:59:06
- XIV: Petropavlovsk and Schlüsselburg 3:09:37
- XV: The Trade Unions 3:17:23
- XVI: Maria Spiridonova 3:28:54
- XVII: Another Visit to Peter Kropotkin 3:44:06
- XVIII: En Route 3:51:54
- XIX: In Kharkov 3:59:07
- XX: Poltava 4:35:11
- XXI: Kiev 4:57:30
- XXII: Odessa 5:38:49
- XXIII: Returning to Moscow 5:53:12
- XXIV: Back in Petrograd 6:11:31
- XXV: Archangel and Return 6:29:17
- XXVI: Death and Funeral of Peter Kropotkin 6:45:58
- XXVII: Kronstadt 6:59:14
- XXVIII: Persecution of Anarchists 7:16:14
- XXIX: Travelling Salesmen of the Revolution 7:40:08
- XXX: Education and Culture 7:58:26
- XXXI: Exploiting the Famine 8:24:58
- XXXII: The Socialist Republic Resorts to Deportation 8:31:40
- XXXIII: Afterword 8:41:51
In 1919, at the height of the anti-leftist Palmer Raids conducted by the Wilson administration, the anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman was deported to the nascent Soviet Union. Despite initial plans to fight the deportation order in court, Goldman eventually acquiesced in order to take part in the new revolutionary Russia herself. While initially supportive of the Bolsheviks, with some reservations, Goldman’s firsthand experiences with Bolshevik oppression and corruption prompted her titular disillusionment and eventual emigration to Germany.
In My Disillusionment in Russia, Goldman records her travels throughout Russia as part of a revolutionary museum commission, and her interactions with a variety of political and literary figures like Vladimir Lenin, Maxim Gorky, John Reed, and Peter Kropotkin. Goldman concludes her account with a critique of the Bolshevik ideology in which she asserts that revolutionary change in institutions cannot take place without corresponding changes in values.
My Disillusionment in Russia had a troubled publication history, since the first American printing in 1923 omitted the last twelve chapters of what was supposed to be a thirty-three chapter book. (Somehow, the last chapters failed to reach the publisher, who did not suspect the book to be incomplete.) The situation was remedied with the publication of the remaining chapters in 1924 as part of a volume titled My Further Disillusionment in Russia. This Standard Ebooks edition compiles both volumes into a single volume, following the intent of the original manuscript.