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The Beautiful Nihilist (Sophie Perovskaya, 1889)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

THE BEAUTIFUL NIHILIST “She was beautiful.” Those are the three words with which a Russian writer, who was intimately acquainted with her, commences his personal description of Sophie Perovsky. “Hers was not,” he continues, “the […]

Imprisoned Twenty Years (Vera Figner, 1904)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

IMPRISONED TWENTY YEARS Czar Banishes Desperate Woman Nihilist to Archangel By Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 8.—Mary Figner, who has been confined to the Schlusselburg fortress for twenty years, has been released and banished to […]

The Term “Nihilist” (1887)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

THE TERM “NIHILIST.” November Century. The word “Nihilist” was introduced in Russia by Turgenef, who used it in his novel “Fathers and Children” to describe a certain type of character which had then recently made […]

The Stuff of which Nihilist Martyrs are Made (Sophie Perovskaya, 1881)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

The Stuff of which Nihilist Martyrs are Made. Sophie Perowski, recently executed for complicity in the murder of the Czar, was, according to the Intransigeant, a woman of the highest endowments and accomplishments, who at […]

Beautiful Nihilist Slays; Weds; Tracked, Is Caught (Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, 1907)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

BEAUTIFUL NIHILIST SLAYS; WEDS; TRACKED, IS CAUGHT Woman Who Killed Governor Genera of Warsaw Pleads She Has Become Austrian by Marriage By Associated Press. VIENNA, Nov. 23.—Wanda Dobroczieka, the woman who threw a bomb at […]

A Beautiful Nihilist (Vera Figner, 1892)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

A Beautiful Nihilist Boston Advertiser Vera Figner is one of the Nihilists lately condemned to death at St. Petersburg. She is described as of rare beauty. She is 27 years of age, and has been […]

A Hunt to Death (1892)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

A HUNT TO DEATH. A Beautiful Nihilist’s Contrivance to Elude Justice. I had settled myself in my corner and the train was already swinging at a good pace down the “Golden Valley” before I noticed, […]

Newspaper Clippings: Beer for Baptism (1901)

June 21, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Beer for Baptism. Emma Goldman Mocks Religious Rite in Mining Town. Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 16. – A curious story of Emma Goldman, which is vouched for by a Milwaukee man is being told. It was […]

Strategies of Interpretation

June 13, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

SIDEBAR I. Engaging with the Texts. Don’t let anyone tell you that organizing a multi-volume edition is easy. It’s not. And organizing an anarchist edition, for an anarchist audience and taking into account even some […]

Frank Harris, “Emma Goldman, the Famous Anarchist (1923)

June 13, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Men stone the prophets still, and persecute those sent to them to point the upward way! In prison oft, this female St. Paul, an exile now and outcast from her own, living in Berlin even […]

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Encounters with the Anarchist Idea / Tools for an Anarchist Entente

Year: 2016

The Beautiful Nihilist (Sophie Perovskaya, 1889)

Imprisoned Twenty Years (Vera Figner, 1904)

The Term “Nihilist” (1887)

The Stuff of which Nihilist Martyrs are Made (Sophie Perovskaya, 1881)

Beautiful Nihilist Slays; Weds; Tracked, Is Caught (Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, 1907)

A Beautiful Nihilist (Vera Figner, 1892)

A Hunt to Death (1892)

Newspaper Clippings: Beer for Baptism (1901)

Strategies of Interpretation

Frank Harris, “Emma Goldman, the Famous Anarchist (1923)