Bolshevik Myth

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - *Non-fiction, Political Science, Modern (20th C)

Authors: Alexander Berkman In Year : 1925

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Bolshevik Myth

Preface
The Log of the Transport “Buford”
On Soviet Soil
In Petrograd
Moscow
The Guest House
Tchicherin and Karakhan
The Market
In the Moskkommune
The Club on the Tverskaya
A Visit to Peter Kropotkin
Bolshevik Activities
Sights and Views
Lenin
On the Latvian Border
Back in Petrograd
Rest Homes for Workers
The First of May
The British Labor Mission
The Spirit of Fanaticism
Other People
En Route to the Ukraina
First Days in Kharkov
In Soviet Institutions
Yossif the Emigrant
Nestor Makhno
Prison and Concentration Camp
Further South
Fastov the Pogromed
Kiev
In Various Walks
The Tcheka
Odessa: Life and Vision
Dark People
A Bolshevik Trial
Returning to Petrograd
In the Far North
Early Days of 1921
Kronstadt
Last Links in the Chain

The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922) is a book by Alexander Berkman who with his partner Emma Goldman was deported from the USA under the 1918 Anarchist Exclusion Act and shipped to the young Soviet Russia. He describes his experiences in Bolshevik Russia from 1920 to 1922, where he saw the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Written in the form of a diary, The Bolshevik Myth describes how Berkman's initial enthusiasm for the revolution faded as he became disillusioned with the Bolsheviks and their suppression of all political dissent.

This book is interesting to compare with Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace. Last Message to the People of America written by Goldman and Berkman on the eve of their deportation. (Summary by Wikipedia and Mark Chulsky)