![]() ![]() So many attitudes have shifted since then. I don’t always agree with her, and that figures, since these essays were written a century ago. She died in Toronto, Canada, in 1940, at the age of seventy. Goldman later left the Soviet Union and in 1923 published a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. After their release from prison, they were arrested-along with 248 others-in the Palmer Raids during the First Red Scare and deported to Russia. ![]() In 1917, Goldman and fellow anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to “induce persons not to register” for the newly-instated draft. Attracted to anarchism after the Chicago Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women’s rights, and social issues. Born in present-day Lithuania to a Jewish family, Goldman immigrated to the United States in 1885. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer. ![]()
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