My Disillusionment in Russia
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My Disillusionment in Russia was published in 1923 by Doubleday, Page & Co. The book was based on a much longer manuscript entitled My Two Years in Russia which was an eyewitness account of events in Russia from 1920 to 1921 that ensued in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and which culminated in the Kronstadt rebellion. Long-concerned about developments with the Bolsheviks, Goldman described the rebellion as the “final wrench. I saw before me the Bolshevik State, formidable, crushing every constructive revolutionary effort, suppressing, debasing, and disintegrating everything” Much to Goldman’s dismay, only upon receiving the first printed copies of the book did she become aware that the publisher had changed the title; and the last twelve chapters were entirely missing, including an Afterword which Goldman felt was “the most vital part” of the book. Sympathetic to the initial Russian Revolution, the complete book, presented by this edition, in thirty-two chapter and an Afterword, is nonetheless a strong and impassioned left critique of the Bolshevik Revolution as well as Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy—an “all-powerful, centralized Government with State Capitalism as its economic expression.” The complete book is also critical of Marxian theory, which Goldman describes as “a cold, mechanistic, enslaving formula.”
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Emma Goldman. My Disillusionment in Russia
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Introduction
Preface to the First Volume of the American Edition
Preface to the Second Volume of the American Edition1
1 — Deportation to Russia
2 — Petrograd
3 — Disturbing Thoughts
4 — Moscow: First Impressions
5 — Meeting People
6 — Preparing for American Deportees
7 — Rest Homes for Workers
8 — The First of May in Petrograd
9 — Industrial Militarization
10 — The British Labour Mission
11 — A Visit from The Ukraina
12 — Beneath the Surface
13 — Joining the Museum of the Revolution
14 — Petropavlovsk and Schlüsselburg
15 — The Trade Unions
16 — Maria Spiridonova
17 — Another Visit to Peter Kropotkin
18 — En Route
19 — In Kharkov
20 — Poltava
21 — Kiev
Preface to Last Twelve Chapters
22 — Odessa
23 — Returning to Moscow
24 — Back in Petrograd
25 — Archangel and Return
26 — Death and Funeral of Peter Kropotkin
27 — Kronstadt
28 — Persecution of Anarchists
29 — Travelling Salesmen of the Revolution
30 — Education and Culture
31 — Exploiting the Famine
32 — The Socialist Republic Resorts to Deportation
AFTERWORD
Notes
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My Disillusionment
in Russia
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When the Courts of the State of New York upheld the fraudulent methods by which I was disfranchised and my American citizenship of thirty-two years denied me, I waived my right of appeal in order that I might return to Russia and help in the great work. I believed fervently that the Bolsheviki were furthering the Revolution and exerting themselves in behalf of the people. I clung to my faith and belief for more than a year after my coming to Russia.
Observation and study, extensive travel through various parts of the country, meeting with every shade of political opinion and every variety of friend and enemy of the Bolsheviki— all convinced me of the ghastly delusion which had been foisted upon the world.
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