Anarchist Voices

Description

**Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America** is a 1995 oral history book of 53 interviews with anarchists over 30 years by Paul Avrich. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_Voices))

First Sentence

BY THE EARLY 1960s, when I began to interview the anarchists, the classical phase of the movement, bounded by the Paris Commune of 1871 and the Spanish Revolution of the 1930s, had long since drawn to a close.

Description

Through his many books on the history of anarchism, Paul Avrich has done much to dispel the public’s conception of the anarchists as mere terrorists. In Anarchist Voices, Avrich lets American anarchists speak for themselves. This abridged edition contains fifty-three interviews conducted by Avrich over a period of thirty years, interviews that portray the human dimensions of a movement much maligned by the authorities and contemporary journalists. Most of the interviewees (anarchists as well as their friends and relatives) were active during the heyday of the movement, between the 1880s and the 1930s. They represent all schools of anarchism and include both famous figures and minor ones, previously overlooked by most historians. Their stories provide a wealth of personal detail about such anarchist luminaries as Emma Goldman and Sacco and Vanzetti. (Source: [Princeton University Press](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691044941/anarchist-voices))

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Other Editions

• Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in AmericaPaperbackPrinceton University Press1995-01-01
• Anarchist VoicesPaperbackPrinceton University Press1996-01-01
• Voces anarquistasFundación de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo2004-01-01
• Anarchist VoicesPaperbackAK Press2006-01-11
• Anarchist VoicesPrinceton University Press2021-01-01