biography
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| lived:
| (1870–1936)
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| biography:
| Anarchist and writer, born in Vilnius, E Lithuania. After being influenced by Russian nihilists, he emigrated to the USA. He became involved with radical Jewish labour groups in New York City and in 1879 began his personal and professional liaison with Emma Goldman that would last all his life. He gained international attention with his attempted assassination of Henry C Frick (1892), for which he served 14 years in prison (1892–1906). He founded and edited Mother Earth with Goldman after his release. The two were arrested and found guilty of opposing conscription during World War 1, and he went to prison again (1917–19), then, along with Goldman, was deported to Russia (1919) as a political undesirable. Originally he supported the Communist Revolution in Russia, but he changed his views and wrote The Bolshevik Myth (1925). He spent his final years in Sweden, Germany, and France, before committing suicide in Nice. |
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