Bergman And Emma Summary

Paul Avrich was a historian crucial to the research of the anarchist movement, Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, would have been his next publishment had he not passed, his daughter Karen Avrich completed the project. The dual biography of Alexander “Sasha” Berkman and Emma Goldman examines the two figures from their first encounter in a New York City cafe in 1889 until Goldman’s death in 1940. Their complex relationship provides a portrait of the anarchist movement, their lives were frequently intertwined with other anarchist figures. While they were lovers, above all else they were comrades-in-arms and friends, with an open love policy. It is during this time in which anarchism was at its height