[lbo-talk] Re: About that Emma Goldman special on PBS last night...

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 13 08:24:41 PDT 2004


I wrote:
> >No mention of the Spanish
> > Revolution.

Dennis Perrin wrote:
> I caught the last half-hour, and there was plenty of
mention of the Spanish
> Civil War. I'd like to see the whole thing at some
point. Though it looked
> very small-budget tacky, there was, in what I saw,
some pretty good stuff
> that you almost never see on "public" TV.

There was "plenty" of mention of the Spanish Civil War? Maybe I was spacing out after the first hour, but I recall the last 30 minutes dealing almost exclusively with her post-USSR exile, her lonely, contemplative life on St. Tropez, how she dealt with the death of Berkman, how she came to terms with her disillusionment in the USSR, etc. The timeline on the PBS website goes into her involvement with Spain very well, though:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/timeline/timeline2.html

Ah, well. It's definitely worth seeing all the way through. Put out themes, working class history you don't see much on TV these days.

b



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