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My Disillusionment in Russia is a book by Emma Goldman, 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 ...
- Emma Goldman
- 1923
Emma Goldman, a deported American anarchist, travels to Russia in 1920-1921 and reveals the oppression, corruption and betrayal of the Soviet government. She also describes the repression of the extreme left revolutionaries and the Kronstadt rebellion.
- Chapter 1. Deportation to Russia
- Chapter 2. Petrograd
- Chapter 3. Disturbing Thoughts
- Chapter 4. Moscow: First Impressions
- Chapter 5. Meeting People
- Chapter 6. Preparing For American Deportees
- Chapter 7. Rest Homes For Workers
- Chapter 8. The First of May in Petrograd
- Chapter 9. Industrial Militarization
- Chapter 10. The British Labour Mission
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On the night of December 21, 1919, together with two hundred and forty-eight other political prisoners, I was deported from America. Although it was generally known we were to be deported, few really believed that the United States would so completely deny her past as an asylum for political refugees, some of whom had lived and worked in America fo...
My parents had moved to St. Petersburg when I was thirteen. Under the discipline of a German school in Königsberg and the Prussian attitude toward everything Russian, I had grown up in the atmosphere of hatred to that country. I dreaded especially the terrible Nihilists who had killed Tsar Alexander II, so good and kind, as I had been taught. St. P...
Life went on. Each day brought new conflicting thoughts and emotions. The feature which affected me most was the inequality I witnessed in my immediate environment. I learned that the rations issued to the tenants of the First House of the Soviet (Astoria) were much superior to those received by the workers in the factories. To be sure, they were n...
Coming from Petrograd to Moscow is like being suddenly transferred from a desert to active life, so great is the contrast. On reaching the large open square in front of the main Moscow station I was amazed at the sight of busy crowds, cabbies, and porters. The same picture presented itself all the way from the station to the Kremlin. The streets we...
At a conference of the Moscow Anarchists in March I first learned of the part some Anarchists had played in the Russian Revolution. In the July uprising of 1917 the Kronstadt sailors were led by the Anarchist Yarchuck; the Constituent Assembly was dispersed by Zhelezniakov; the Anarchists had participated on every front and helped to drive back the...
Events in Moscow, quickly following each other, were full of interest. I wanted to remain in that vital city, but as I had left all my effects in Petrograd I decided to return there and then come back to Moscow to join Lunacharsky in his work. A few days before my departure a young woman, an Anarchist, came to visit me. She was from the Petrograd M...
Since my return from Moscow I noticed a change in Zorin’s attitude: he was reserved, distant, and not as friendly as when we first met. I ascribed it to the fact that he was overworked and fatigued, and not wishing to waste his valuable time I ceased visiting the Zorins as frequently as before. One day, however, he called up to ask if Alexander Ber...
In 1890 the First of May was for the first time celebrated in America as Labour’s international holiday. May Day became to me a great, Inspiring event. To witness the celebration of the First of May in a free country — it was something to dream of, to long for, but perhaps never to be realized. And now, in 1920, the dream of many years was about to...
The Ninth Congress of the All-Russian Communist Party, held in March, 1920, was characterized by a number of measures which meant a complete turn to the right. Foremost among them was the militarization of labour and the establishment of one-man management of industry, as against the collegiate shop system. Obligatory labour had long been a law upo...
I was glad to learn that Angelica Balabanova arrived in Petrograd to prepare quarters for the British Labour Mission. During my stay in Moscow I had come to know and appreciate the fine spirit of Angelica. She was very devoted to me and when I fell ill she gave much time to my care, procured medicine which could be obtained only in the Kremlin drug...
Emma Goldman, an anarchist and a witness of the Russian Revolution, wrote this book to expose the Bolshevik regime and its repression of the people. She describes her experiences, observations, and reactions during her two years in Russia, from 1920 to 1921.
Apr 27, 2023 · In the case of the Bolsheviki this tyranny is masked by a worldstirring slogan: thus they have succeeded in blinding the masses. Just because I am a revolutionist I refuse to side with the master class, which in Russia is called the Communist Party.
Emma Goldman recounts her deportation from America to Soviet Russia in 1919, where she was welcomed as a political refugee and a comrade of the Revolution. She describes her first impressions of the Soviet Government, its achievements and its problems, and her encounter with the women in black.
One must have lived in Russia, close to the everyday affairs of the people; one must have seen and felt their utter disillusionment and despair to appreciate fully the disintegrating effect of the Bolshevik principle and methods--disintegrating all that was once the pride and the glory of revolutionary Russia.
Sep 17, 2019 · A free eBook by Emma Goldman, a prominent anarchist and feminist, who criticized the Soviet regime and its repression of dissent. Read online or download in various formats, including EPUB, Kindle, and plain text.
