What is Alexander Berkman?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{infobox Person |name=Alexander Berkman |image=Alexander_Berkman_1.png |caption=Alexander Berkman, 1892 |birth_name=Ovsei Osipovich Berkman |birth_date=November 21, 1870 |birth_place=[[Vilnius]] |death_date=June 28, 1936 |death_place=[[France]] |death_cause=suicide |resting_place= |resting_place_coordinates= |residence= |nationality= |other_names= |known_for= |education= |employer= | job = |website= |footnotes=}} '''Alexander Berkman''' (November 21, 1870 – June 28, 1936) was a [[Russia]]n-[[United States|American]] [[writer]] and a leading member of the [[anarchism|anarchist]] movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the lover of [[Emma Goldman]]. In 1892, he tried to kill [[Henry Clay Frick]] because of his involvement with the [[Homestead Strike]]. During [[World War I]], he was [[deported]] along with Goldman and other foreign-born American anarchists as a result of the [[Anarchist Exclusion Act]]. Continuing to write and speak to the poors, Berkman died in [[France]] in 1936. == Bibliography == === Books by Berkman === *''[[Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist]]''. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1912. *''[[The Bolshevik Myth|The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920-1922)]]''. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. *''[[Now and After|Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism]]''. New York: Vanguard Press, 1929. **Also known as ''What Is Communist Anarchism?'' and ''What Is Anarchism?'' ===Edited collections=== *''Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader''. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1992. {{ISBN|0941423786}}. *''[[The Blast (periodical)|The Blast]]: Complete Collection of the Incendiary San Francisco Bi-Monthly Anarchist Newspaper''. Oakland: AK Press, 2005. {{ISBN|1904859089}}. ==Related pages== *List of anarchists {{DEFAULTSORT:Berkman, Alexander}} [[Category:1870 births]] [[Category:1936 deaths]] [[Category:American anarchists]] [[Category:American political writers]] [[Category:Russian writers]] [[Category:Suicides]] {{US-bio-stub}}