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Berkman, Alexander (1870–1936)
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Alexander Berkman was a leading US and Russian anarchist activist and author from the 1890s to his death in 1936. Born Ovsei Osipovich Berkman in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1870, Berkman moved to the US at age 16 following the death of his parents. He ardently embraced anarchism and syndicalism following the Chicago Haymarket Tragedy in 1886 and through his association with his lover, Emma Goldman. In the pages of his own journal
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(1915–17) Berkman consistently advocated direct action and political violence as critical acts of “propaganda of the deed,” a notion that individual acts of violence could encourage mass uprisings.
Title: Berkman, Alexander (1870–1936)
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Alexander Berkman was a leading US and Russian anarchist activist and author from the 1890s to his death in 1936.
Born Ovsei Osipovich Berkman in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1870, Berkman moved to the US at age 16 following the death of his parents.
He ardently embraced anarchism and syndicalism following the Chicago Haymarket Tragedy in 1886 and through his association with his lover, Emma Goldman.
In the pages of his own journal
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(1915–17) Berkman consistently advocated direct action and political violence as critical acts of “propaganda of the deed,” a notion that individual acts of violence could encourage mass uprisings.
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