--- Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> wrote:
> Paul Avrich, radical historian, 1931-2006
>
> Infoshop News (news.infoshop.org)
> February 20, 2006
>
> Radical historian, Paul Avrich, died last week. He
> was 74. Paul Avrich
> was born in New York City on August 4, 1931. He was
> a noted historian
> and professor who authored many books on anarchist
> history, including
> books on the Haymarket Riot, the Modern School
> Movement, the Russian
> Revolution and a collection of oral interviews with
> American anarchists
> titled Anarchist Voices. Avrich was nominated for
> the Pulitzer Prize
> several times and in 1984 he won the Philip Taft
> Labor History Award.
>
> Avrich received his B.A. from Cornell University in
> 1952 and his Ph.D.
> from Columbia University in 1961. Avrich taught at
> Queens College of the
> City University of New York and at Columbia
> University. He was a
> Guggenheim fellow at Columbia University in 1967-68
> and a National
> Endowment for the Humanities senior fellow in
> 1972-73.
>
> Avrich published his dissertation on “The Russian
> Revolution and the
> Factory Committees” at Columbia University in 1961.
> In 1967 Avrich
> published his first book on the history of
> anarchism, “The Russian
> Anarchists.” He went on to publish many more books
> on anarchist history,
> including “The Haymarket Tragedy” in 1984 and “Sacco
> and Vanzetti” in
> 1991. Writing about Avrich’s book “Kronstadt 1921”
> for the New York
> Review of Books, Alasdair MacIntyre observed that
> "[Avrich] gives us the
> closest examination of all the available evidence
> that we are likely to
> have for some time and he uses his evidence to
> construct a narrative
> that, in its most brilliant passages, matches the
> power of Deutscher's
> The Prophet Armed and Moshe Lewin's Lenin's Last
> Struggle."
>
> The Library of Congress houses the Paul Avrich
> Collection, a collection
> of over twenty thousand manuscripts and publications
> on American and
> European anarchism that Avrich donated to the
> library.
>
> Ronald Creagh remembered Avrich this weekend: “
I
> know that Paul's
> friendliness will remain in the minds of all who
> have known him, just as
> his scholarship will be remembered by all who have
> read his remarkable
> books. He offers his readers very extraordinary
> information. Perhaps
> his most thought-provoking testimony is contained in
> his work Anarchist
> Voices, which is based on his careful,
> time-consuming interviews with
> hundreds of people.”
>
> AK Press (www.akpress.org) recently re-published
> Anarchist Voices.
>
> Avrich Collection at the Library of Congress
>
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awrbc4/pamphlet.html
>
> Selected Bibliography
>
> * The Russian Anarchists, Princeton University
> Press, 1967.
>
> * Kronstadt 1921, Princeton University Press,
> 1970.
>
> * Russian Rebels, 1600-1800, Schocken, 1972.
>
> * (Editor and author of introduction) Peter
> Kropotkin The Conquest
> of Bread, Allen Lane, 1972.
>
> * (Editor and author of introduction) Peter
> Kropotkin, Mutual Aid,
> a Factor of Evolution, Allen Lane, 1972.
>
> * (Editor) The Anarchists in the Russian
> Revolution, Cornell
> University Press, 1973.
>
> * An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine
> de Cleyre,
> Princeton University Press, 1978.
>
> * The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and
> Education in the United
> States, Princeton University Press, 1980.
>
> * (Author of introduction) Voltairine De
> Cleyre, The First Mayday:
> The Haymarket Speeches, 1895-1910, Libertarian Book
> Club, 1980.
>
> * The Haymarket Tragedy, Princeton University,
> 1984.
>
> * Bakunin & Nechaev, Freedom Press, 1987.
>
> * Anarchist Portraits, Princeton University,
> 1988.
>
> * Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background,
> Princeton
> University, 1991.
>
> * Anarchist Voices: An Oral History Of
> Anarchism in Amreica,
> Princeton University, 1996.
>
> Sources: Includes information from Contemporary
> Authors Online and
> research assistance from Radical Reference.
>
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