Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

by Alexander Berkman

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An early classic of American prison literature, now annotated in this definitive edition.

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Alexander Berkman (1870-1936) was born of a well-to-do Jewish family in Russia and emigrated to America as a young man. Deported for political reasons from the United States in 1919, he moved to the Soviet Union, from which he was in turn expelled.

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Rexroth, Kenneth (Introduction)
Ward, John William (Introduction)

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Canonical title
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
Original publication date
1912
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Alexander Berkman; Emma Goldman; Henry Clay Frick

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Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
335.83092Society, government, & cultureEconomicsSocialism and related systemsOther systemsAnarchismBiography And HistoryBiography
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HX843.7 .B47 .A3Social sciencesSocialism. Communism. AnarchismAnarchism
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