| Paul Avrich |
Article Index for Paul |
Website Links For Paul |
Information AboutPaul Avrich |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT PAUL AVRICH | |
| 1931 births | |
| avrich, paul | |
| 2006 deaths | |
| deaths from alzheimers disease | |
| american historians | |
| historians of anarchism | |
| cornell university alumni | |
|
Paul Avrich ( August 4 , 1931 - February 16 , 2006 ) was a professor and Historian . He taught at Queens College , New York for most of his life and was vital in preserving the history of the Anarchist movement in Russia and the USA . LIFE & WORK As the son of a Jew ish family originally from Odessa , Avrich was able to travel to the USSR as an exchange student in 1961 after Nikita Khrushchev 's 1959 US visit. While there working on his thesis, ''The Russian Revolution and the Factory Committees'', he researched the Kronstadt Rebellion and the role of anarchists in the Russian Revolution . This information allowed him to produce pioneering and important works on this subject. As a teacher at Queens College, he sought to pass to his students an "affection and sense of solidarity with anarchists as people, rather than as militants" and was described as a "trusted friend" to many older anarchists whom he had met and interviewed, saving their stories for history. He wrote extensively on topics related to Anarchism , including books on Sacco And Vanzetti , the Haymarket Riot , and the Kronstadt rebellion. Other important works include a biography of Voltairine De Cleyre , ''The Modern School Movement'' and ''Anarchist Portraits''. He also edited the important oral history collection, ''Anarchist Voices''. He was nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize For History . He also spoke regularly at the Libertarian Book Club in New York. Dr. Paul Avrich donated his collection of nearly twenty thousand twentieth-century American and European anarchist publications and manuscripts to the Library Of Congress . BIBLIOGRAPHY From the Centre International de Recherches sur l'Anarchisme .
EXTERNAL LINKS
|
|
|