The Tragic Procession :
Subtitle: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid ; the reprinted Bulletin of the Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia and Bulletin of the Relief Fund of the International Working Men’s Association for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia 1923-1931
Contributors: Berkman, Alexander; Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia ;; Relief Fund of the International Working Men’s Association for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia ;; Alexander Berkman Social Club
Series: Anarchist sources
Publisher: Kate Sharpley Library; Alexander Berkman Social Club; Absc/Kate Sharpley Library
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Berkeley; San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781873605905
Subjects: Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia; Relief Fund of the International Working Men’s Association for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia; Berkman, Alexander, 1870-1936; Anarchists -- Soviet Union.; Political persecution -- Soviet Union.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936.
Work titles: Bulletin of the Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia; Bulletin of the Relief Fund of the International Working Men’s Association for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia
First sentence: In January 1922, Freedom, the English-language anarchist newspaper, published an article titled “Bolsheviks Shooting Anarchists” by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman.
Description: Reprinted here for the first time, this collection of bulletins—edited through the years by Alexander Berkman, Mark Mratchny, Milly Witcop-Rocker, Rudolf Rocker, et al.—chronicle the gradual slaughter of a whole generation of Russian anarchists and revolutionists. They also illustrate the astonishing effort of small groups of radicals who, living often in appalling conditions themselves, attempted to both highlight the vicious reality of the Bolshevik government and alert a wider public to the awful situation its prisoners found themselves in. Imprisoned, tortured, driven mad, and exiled to places so remote no contact with the outside world was possible, the prisoners disappeared into a totalitarian darkness. Each recorded name or initial printed here signifes a life that often had been spent in revolutionary commitment, a life systematically and carefully destroyed by erstwhile “comrades.” To remember them is the least we can do.
Notes: Introduction by the Alexander Berkman Social Club
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