Alexander Berkman

Alexander Berkman (November 21, 1870 – June 28, 1936) was a Russian-American writer and a leading member of the anarchist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the lover of Emma Goldman. In 1892, he tried to kill Henry Clay Frick because of his involvement with the Homestead Strike. During World War I, he was deported along with Goldman and other foreign-born American anarchists as a result of the Anarchist Exclusion Act. Continuing to write and speak to the poors, Berkman died in France in 1936.

Alexander Berkman
Alexander Berkman, 1892
Born	Ovsei Osipovich Berkman November 21, 1870 Vilnius
Died	June 28, 1936 France
Cause of death	suicide

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  Berkman's portrait, July 24, 1892

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  Berkman addressing a May Day rally in New York's Union Square, 1914

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  Goldman and Berkman in 1917, following their trial

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  Berkman in 1919, on the eve of his deportation

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  Berkman's experiences in Bolshevist Russia were the basis of The Bolshevik Myth.

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  Berkman (right) and Nestor Makhno in Paris, 1927

Books by Berkman

• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1912.
• The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920-1922). New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925.
• Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism. New York: Vanguard Press, 1929.
  • Also known as What Is Communist Anarchism? and What Is Anarchism?

Edited collections

• Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1992. ISBN 0941423786.
• The Blast: Complete Collection of the Incendiary San Francisco Bi-Monthly Anarchist Newspaper. Oakland: AK Press, 2005. ISBN 1904859089.

Related pages

• List of anarchists