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Goldman had little formal education, but she read widely and in St. Petersburg
associated with a group of radical students. She emigrated to the United States in
1885 where she worked in clothing factories and became acquainted with socialist
and anarchist fellow workers. She and fellow anarchist writer Alexander Berkman,
her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay
Frick as an act of "propaganda of the deed", but Frick survived the attempt on his
life in 1892, and Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Goldman was
imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and
illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded
the anarchist journal "Mother Earth" that she edited until its suppression in 1917.
Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons,
atheism, freedom of speech, militarism, capitalism, marriage, free love, and
homosexuality; she even developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into
feminism and anarchism. She also lectured frequently on the contemporary dramatic
works of such European playwrights as Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, and George
Bernard Shaw. Her talks on their work were published as THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF
THE MODERN DRAMA (1914). The essays in ANARCHISM AND OTHER ESSAYS (1910) outline
Goldman's views on a number of subjects, most notably the oppression of women and
perceived shortcomings of first wave feminism, but also prisons, political
violence, sexuality, religion, nationalism and art theory.
In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to
"induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their
release, they were arrested — along with hundreds of others — and deported to
Russia. Initially supportive of that country's October Revolution that brought the
Bolsheviks to power, Goldman changed her opinion in the wake of the Kronstadt
rebellion, and denounced the Soviet Union for its violent repression of independent
voices. She left the Soviet Union and published a book about her experiences, MY
DISILLUSIONMENT IN RUSSIA (1923).
Her autobiography, LIVING MY LIFE, was published in two volumes in 1931 and 1934,
and thoroughly covers her personal and political life from early childhood through
to 1927
* Anarchism and Other Essays (Dover, 1969 / Duke Classics, 2012) — PDF + ePUB
* Anarchy! An Anthology (Counterpoint, 2012). P. Glassgold, ed. — PDF + ePUB
* Anarchy and the Sex Question (PM, 2016). S. Wilbur, ed. — PDF
* Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace (1919) [with Alexander Berkman]
* Emma Goldman: Documentary History of the American Years — PDF
* Vol. 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 (California, 2003). C. Falk, ed.
* Vol. 2: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909 (Illinois, 2008). C. Falk, ed.
* Fragment of the Prison Experiences (Stella Comyn, 1919)
* Living My Life (Dover, 1970). 2 vols. — ePUB
* Living My Life (abridged) (Penguin Classics, 2006). Miriam Brody, intro. — ePUB
* Marriage and Love (Mother Earth, 1911 / Duke Classics, 2012) — PDF + ePUB
* My Disillusionment in Russia (Doubleday, 1923) — PDF
* My Further Disillusionment in Russia (Doubleday, 1924) — PDF + ePUB
* Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings & Speeches (Prometheus, 1998) — PDF + ePUB
* Social Significance of the Modern Drama (Badger, 1914) — PDF
* Traffic in Women & Other Essays on Feminism (Times Change, 1970) — PDF
* Vision on Fire: Goldman on the Spanish Revolution (AK, 2006). D. Porter, ed. —
PDF
These reprints from the Anarchist Library are also included (all PDF):
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