Paul Avrich

Paul Avrich (* August 4, 1931 in New York City; † February 17, 2006 ) was an American historian who specialized in the history of anarchism.

Life

Avrich, who came from a Jewish family who served during the Korean War in the United States Air Force, which sent him to Syracuse University to study Russian. He then worked for the U.S. Secret Service in the Federal Republic of Germany, where he had the task of collecting information about the Soviet Air Force stationed in Europe. The acquired during the Cold War language skills enabled him to specialize while studying for the Russian history.

Avrich studied at Cornell University and in 1961 received his doctorate with a thesis on the factory committees in the Russian Revolution at Columbia University in New York. From 1961 to 1999 he taught as a professor at Queens College in New York. Avrich was considered one of the best connoisseurs of the history of the Russian and American Anarchism, a movement for which he had great sympathy itself. He died in 2006 from Alzheimer 's disease.

Writings

  • The Russian Anarchists. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J. 1967 ( translation into French, Japanese, Spanish and Italian )
  • Kronstadt 1921. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1970 ( translation into French, Spanish and Czech language )
  • Russian Rebels 1600 - 1800th Schocken Books, NY 1972
  • The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution. Cornell University Press, NY, 1973 ( Italian translation )
  • An American anarchist. The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J. 1978
  • Modern School Movement. Anarchism and Education in the United States. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J. 1980
  • Haymarket Tragedy. Princeton University Press, 1984
  • Anarchist Portraits. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J. In 1988.
  • Sacco and Vanzetti. The Anarchist Background. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J. In 1991.
  • Anarchist Voices. An Oral History of Anarchism in America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J. 1995

Secondary literature

  • Marianne Enckell: Paul Avrich (1931-2006), Obituary in: Graswurzelrevolution No. 312, Volume 35, October 2006, page 19
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