The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920-1922)

Alexander Berkman

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For more information see: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) licence. THE BOLSHEVIK MYTH THE BOLSHEVIK MYTH (Diary IQ20-IQ22) BY . ALEXANDER BERKMAN HUTCHINSON and CO. [Publishers] Limited 33 to 36 Paternoster Row :: London Copyright, 1925, by BONI & LlVERIGHT, IKC. Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS CEAPTER L The Log of the Transport "Buford" PAGE vii 13 II. On Soviet Soil ....... 28 III. In Petrograd . . .... . . 32 IV. 42 V. The Guest House ..... .. ,. 46 VI. TCHICHERIN AND KaRAKHAN . . . 50 VII. The Market 55 VIII. In the Moskkommune ,., . 61 IX. The Club on the Tverskaya . . . 65 X. A Visit to Peter Kropotkin . 72 XI. Bolshevik Activities 76 XII. Sights and Views . . . . . . 82 XIII. Lenin .......... 89 XIV. On the Latvian Border . . ... • 93 XV. Back in Petrograd 114 XVI. Rest Homes for Workers . . ,. ; . XVII. The First of May . . . ,.. . 129 XVIII. The British Labor Mission . .. ,., 133 XIX. The Spirit of Fanaticism .... 142 ■ VI CONTENTS CHAPTER XX. Other People (■ * 152 XXI. En Route to the Ukraina * • ■ 158 XXII. First Days in Kharkov . 1 ■ • • .•1 163 XXIII. In Soviet Institutions . * m • 174 XXIV. Yossif the Emigrant * * • • 142 ■ VI CONTENTS CHAPTER XX. Other People (■ * 152 XXI. En Route to the Ukraina * • ■ 158 XXII. First Days in Kharkov . 1 ■ • • .•1 163 XXIII. In Soviet Institutions . * m • 174 XXIV. Yossif the Emigrant * * • • l82 XXV. Nestor Makhno . . . • • • 190 XXVI. Prison and Concentration Camp . . 197 XXVII. 204 XXVIII. Fastov the Pogrom ed • • a 207 XXIX. Kiev ...... • • . • . 2l8 XXX. In Vario

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