Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman

TitleSasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2012
AuthorsAvrich, Karen, and Paul Avrich
Number of Pages490
PublisherHarvard University Press
CityCambridge, MA
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In 1889, two Russian immigrants, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, met in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side. Over the next fifty years Emma and Sasha would be fast friends, fleeting lovers, and loyal comrades. This dual biography offers an unprecedented glimpse into their intertwined lives, the lasting influence of the anarchist movement they shaped, and their unyielding commitment to equality and justice. Berkman shocked the country in 1892 with “the first terrorist act in America,” the failed assassination of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick for his crimes against workers. Berkman remained Goldman’s closest confidant though the two were often separated. The blazing sun to Sasha’s morose moon, Emma became known as “the most dangerous woman in America.” Through an attempted prison breakout, multiple bombing plots, and a dramatic deportation from America, these two unrelenting activists insisted on the improbable ideal of a socially just, self-governing utopia, a vision that has shaped movements across the past century.

URLhttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674416734
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