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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ISBN
9789176378618
Publisert
2020
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Vendor
Wisehouse Classics
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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