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Alexander Berkman (1870-1936). The youngest of four children, Berkman was born in Vilna, Russia, to a prosperous family. Attracted to radical ideas as a youth in St. Petersburg, he was expelled from school after submitting an atheistic essay to his instructors. Berkman came to the United States in 1887 and settled in New York City. He was a well-known anarchist leader in the United States and life-long friend of Emma Goldman. His dramatic attempt on the life of Henry Clay Frick is considered the event that broke the back of resistance to the striking workers' demands, although it led to his imprisonment, a penalty he served for over twenty years. Among his numerous agitational writings the best-known of his books are Prison Memoirs, and The Bolshevik Myth. He died as the result of a suicide attempt induced by illness and poverty. From: Normal Books

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• Alexander Berkman

  http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/spunk/library/writers/berkman/index.html
  Some books of Alexander Berkman.

• Alexander Berkman

  http://spartacus-educational.com/USAberkman.htm
  A basic biography of Alexander Berkman.

• Alexander Berkman: What is Communist Anarchism?

  http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/berkman/comanarchism/whatis_toc.html
  Online version of the introductory book by Berkman.

• Berkman Archive

  http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/berkman/berkman.html
  Works of Alexander Berkman, (1870-1936), Communist Anarchist who spent several years in Russia after 1917 and wrote extensively about his experiences.

 

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