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The Bolshevik Myth

by Alexander Berkman

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1925
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  1. Preface

    5:03

  2. The Log of the Transport “Buford”

    28:51

  3. On Soviet Soil

    9:13

  4. In Petrograd

    23:12

  5. Moscow

    8:21

  6. The Guest House

    10:20

  7. Tchicherin and Karakhan

    13:15

  8. The Market

    14:57

  9. In the Moskkommune

    6:19

  10. The Club on the Tverskaya

    10:29

  11. A Visit to Peter Kropotkin

    10:50

  12. Bolshevik Activities

    13:25

  13. Sights and Views

    13:56

  14. Lenin

    9:08

  15. On the Latvian Border

    47:44

  16. Back in Petrograd

    19:23

  17. Rest Homes for Workers

    7:59

  18. The First of May

    7:45

  19. The British Labor Mission

    19:55

  20. The Spirit of Fanaticism

    24:20

  21. Other People

    14:57

  22. En Route to the Ukraina

    12:25

  23. First Days in Kharkov

    19:30

  24. In Soviet Institutions

    13:07

  25. Yossif the Emigrant

    14:07

  26. Nestor Makhno

    12:11

  27. Prison and Concentration Camp

    18:37

  28. Further South

    5:39

  29. Fastov the Pogromed

    22:43

  30. Kiev

    10:49

  31. In Various Walks

    26:59

  32. The Tcheka

    8:36

  33. Odessa: Life and Vision

    27:06

  34. Dark People

    17:54

  35. A Bolshevik Trial

    11:25

  36. Returning to Petrograd

    17:07

  37. In the Far North

    8:59

  38. Early Days of 1921

    9:37

  39. Kronstadt

    23:26

  40. Last Links in the Chain

    28:39

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Berkman was a committed anarchist deported from the United States to Russia in 1919, and he arrived expecting to witness the revolution he had championed for decades. This diary, kept between 1920 and 1922, records his growing dismay instead. Traveling across the young Soviet state, he watched the Bolshevik government silence its critics, jail fellow radicals, and crush the Kronstadt sailors who had once been the revolution's pride. What began as hope curdles into a firsthand indictment of one-party rule and state terror. Berkman writes plainly, letting scenes and conversations carry the argument, and the book endures as a sharp warning from the left about revolutions that devour their own. Free to read here as a PDF and EPUB edition.

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Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman (1870-1936) was a Russian-born American anarchist and writer, and a close comrade of Emma Goldman. He served fourteen years in prison for the attempted killing of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, later editing radical journals before his 1919 deportation to Soviet Russia.

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First published
1925
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
258
Language
English
Genre
Memoir
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PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook