Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Kovno, 1869 - Toronto, 1940

An anarchist and activist in the United States union movement, Goldman was jailed in 1893 for his fiery criticism of government policy. Released the following year, she gave numerous lectures in Europe and on her return to her country edited in New York, starting in 1906, the libertarian magazine Mother Earth, which had to close during the First World War, after being arrested again in 1917 for his fierce criticism of the contest, which he judged as another manifestation of imperialism, and for his fiery calls for desertion.

Between 1920 and 1922 he lived in the USSR with the Lithuanian anarchist writer Alexander Berkman (1870-1936), with whom he was romantically linked, and participated in the Kronshtadt anarchist uprising. Discontent with Soviet authoritarianism, she was expelled and, after collaborating with the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, settled permanently in Canada. Emma Goldman is the author of Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), My Disillusionment with Russia (1923) and the autobiography Living My Life (1931).