Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America (Unabridged) 592. by Paul Avrich, Barry Pateman. Be the first to ask a question about Anarchist Voices The book allowed me to escape into the lives of the real participants of the Anarchist movement of North America in its previous heyday of the 1890s-1930s. Start by marking “Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America (Unabridged)” as Want to Read:

The book allowed me to escape into the lives of the real participants of the Anarchist movement of North America in its previous heyday of the 1890s-1930s.

Their stories provide a wealth of personal detail about such anarchist luminaries as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti.


Each of the six thematic sections begins with an explanatory essay, and each interview with a biographical note. The interviewees were active between the 1880s and the 1930s and represent all schools of anarchism. I'm determined to get Avrich's "Anarchist Portraits" next, in hopes that it will develop the theoretical side a bit more for me.This is a very important book with lots of information about the anarchist movement in the U.S. It's more than 450 pages long, but I couldn't put it down.

The book allowed me to escape into the lives of the real participants of the Anarchist movement of North America in its previous heyday of the 1890s-1930s. However, this is "oral history" is an immense achievement: 53 interviews with American anarchists compiled over 30 years! Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.

Really quite good and worth getting into. The interviewees were active between the 1880s and the 1930s and represent all schools of anarchism. still doesn't beat the Bookchin cheese fries story, though.Very interesting collection of interviews of people who were in some way involved with Anarchism in the United States. 1904859275 "He was a noted historian and professor who authored many books on anarchist history, including books on the Haymarket Riot, the Modern School Movement, the Russian Revolution and a collection of oral interviews with American anarchists titled Anarchist Voices. It's particular helpful for the interviews that deal with the post-WWI era anarchist movement as there aren't many sources dealing with the topic. Barry Pateman is the curator of the Emma Goldman Archive at the University of California Berkeley and wrote the introduction to AK Press' Chomsky on Anarchism.A variegated collection of anarchists' recollections, a strand of American political history which has fallen off of the collective radar but which is somehow managing to re-imagine and remake the ...Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America is a real treasure. However, this is "oral history" is an immense achievement: 53 interviews with American anarchists compiled over 30 years! The interviewees were active between the 1880s and the 1930s and represent all schools of anarchism. It's more than 450 pages long, but I couldn't put it down. This work of impeccable scholarship is an invaluable resource not only for scholars of anarchism but also for those studying immigration, ethnic politics, education, and labor history.Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America (Unabridged)Anarchism, warts and all... real people, and not the Big Name Heroes and Sheroes, but the people who set the type on the newspapers, who cleaned up the hall after the meeting, who worked the land at the commune, and marched in the picket at the strike... Anarchism, warts and all... real people, and not the Big Name Heroes and Sheroes, but the people who set the type on the newspapers, who cleaned up the hall after the meeting, who worked the land at the commune, and marched in the picket at the strike... Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America is a real treasure. Welcome back. Avrich was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize several times and in 1984 he won the Philip Taft Labor History Award. Originally published in 1995, Paul Avrich interviewed hundreds of Anarchists and former Anarchists who were mainly in their eighties and nineties in the 1970s, the majority dying within a few years of the interviews. It's more than 450 pages long, but I couldn't put it down.


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