The Bolshevik Myth
Alexander Berkman
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The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922) is a book by Alexander Berkman who with his partner Emma Goldman was deported from the USA under the 1918 Anarchist Exclusion Act and shipped to the young Soviet Russia. He describes his experiences in Bolshevik Russia from 1920 to 1922, where he saw the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Written in the form of a diary, The Bolshevik Myth describes how Berkman's initial enthusiasm for the revolution faded as he became disillusioned with the Bolsheviks and their suppression of all political dissent.
This book is interesting to compare with Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace. Last Message to the People of America written by Goldman and Berkman on the eve of their deportation.
(Summary by Wikipedia and Mark Chulsky) (10 hr 28 min)
Chapters
Preface | 5:03 | Read by SimonParent |
The Log of the Transport “Buford” | 28:51 | Read by elibishop |
On Soviet Soil | 9:13 | Read by Hindbridge |
In Petrograd | 23:12 | Read by Hindbridge |
Moscow | 8:21 | Read by Alan Mapstone |
The Guest House | 10:20 | Read by XavierVO27 |
Tchicherin and Karakhan | 13:15 | Read by Jonathan Miller |
The Market | 14:57 | Read by Jonathan Miller |
In the Moskkommune | 6:19 | Read by KalenXI |
The Club on the Tverskaya | 10:29 | Read by KalenXI |
A Visit to Peter Kropotkin | 10:50 | Read by XavierVO27 |
Bolshevik Activities | 13:25 | Read by XavierVO27 |
Sights and Views | 13:56 | Read by XavierVO27 |
Lenin | 9:08 | Read by Steven Jon Peterson |
On the Latvian Border | 47:44 | Read by lightcrystal |
Back in Petrograd | 19:23 | Read by elibishop |
Rest Homes for Workers | 7:59 | Read by Andy Glover |
The First of May | 7:45 | Read by Lynette Caulkins |
The British Labor Mission | 19:55 | Read by Richa Jain |
The Spirit of Fanaticism | 24:20 | Read by Jonathan Miller |
Other People | 14:57 | Read by Jonathan Miller |
En Route to the Ukraina | 12:25 | Read by Jonathan Miller |
First Days in Kharkov | 19:30 | Read by elibishop |
In Soviet Institutions | 13:07 | Read by elibishop |
Yossif the Emigrant | 14:07 | Read by elibishop |
Nestor Makhno | 12:11 | Read by elibishop |
Prison and Concentration Camp | 18:37 | Read by mleigh |
Further South | 5:39 | Read by Brize C |
Fastov the Pogromed | 22:43 | Read by Alex Kameleon |
Kiev | 10:49 | Read by wriggleo |
In Various Walks | 26:59 | Read by elibishop |
The Tcheka | 8:36 | Read by MrRoarke865 |
Odessa: Life and Vision | 27:06 | Read by elibishop |
Dark People | 17:54 | Read by Lynette Caulkins |
A Bolshevik Trial | 11:25 | Read by mleigh |
Returning to Petrograd | 17:07 | Read by Kierkegaard |
In the Far North | 8:59 | Read by Marie Christian |
Early Days of 1921 | 9:37 | Read by Kierkegaard |
Kronstadt | 23:26 | Read by Dan |
Last Links in the Chain | 28:39 | Read by elibishop |
Reviews
View from inside
Sk614
This is a powerful look at what went wrong during the Russian Revolution. Written by a disillusioned "hero" of the communist revolution.