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	Paul Avrich (1931-2006) is dead - International History of anarchism - Anarkismo
		Paul Avrich died in New York on the morning of the 17th February 2006.
		Paul was of a Jewish family originally from Odessa and was able to so to the USSR to study as a result of Nikita Kruschev's visit to the United States in 1959 where he not only banged his shoe but also authorised student exchanges.
		Paul Avrich was a faithful friend of the CIRA and contributed generously to its finances and its collections (after one of our last meetings he supported the Russian publication of Volin and offered a preface).
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=2461 (980 words)

	In Memoriam \| May 2006 \| OAH Newsletter
		Paul Avrich, distinguished historian of anarchism, died on February 16, 2006 at the age of seventy-four.
		Paul Avrich literally forged a new field and legitimized it with spectacular, prolific scholarship that became the basis of all work on the history of anarchism thereafter.
		Paul Avrich, the foremost historian of anarchism in the world, was a humble scholar, a spellbinding speaker, a welcoming mentor.
	www.oah.org /pubs/nl/2006may/inmemoriam.html (1625 words)

	Organise! #66 - OBITUARY: Paul Avrich (1931-2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paul Avrich, historian of the anarchist movement, died on February 16
		Paul Avrich’s first book was the massively informative The Russian Anarchists (1967, soon to be republished by AK Press).
		Avrich was a likeable and friendly person and it was this conviviality that opened up many veterans, sometimes suspicious and lonely, to his probings.
	flag.blackened.net /af/org/issue66/avrich.html (515 words)

	Paul Avrich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Avrich (August 4, 1931-February 16, 2006) was a professor and historian.
		As the son of a Jewish family originally from Odessa, Avrich was able to travel to the USSR as an exchange student in 1961 after Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 US visit.
		Paul Avrich donated his collection of nearly twenty thousand twentieth-century American and European anarchist publications and manuscripts to the Library of Congress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Avrich (441 words)

	Paul Avrich’s Modern School Movement
		Avrich's excellent book accomplishes a great many things; but for this reviewer its greatest value is just such an honoring of the previous generation of risk-takers and rule-breakers who sowed the seeds of change which so many of us are attempting to harvest today.
		In other words, "the movement" of the '60s and 70s did not invent itself and Avrich's subject here, the Modern School Movement, was one of its most immediate philosophical and idealogical predecessors.
		Avrich's approach is largely biographical, based on dozens of extensive interviews with surviving Modern School teachers and students (who still gather annually in New Jersey for a joyous, day-long reunion).
	www.spinninglobe.net /avrich.htm (784 words)

	infoshop.org - Organizing for Radical Social Change: Voltairine de Cleyre and anarcha-feminism By Chris Crass
		Avrich argues that her father was terrible frustrated by the economic situation facing him, and did not want Voltairine to experience the same poverty throughout her life.
		Avrich writes that "Voltairine de Cleyre's speech was widely covered in the Philadelphia press." The local press, who had been strongly anti-anarchist, softened their tone when reporting on Voltairine, and she even became something of a celebrity as her act had gained admirers from even the most critical of people.
		Avrich writes that "neither physically nor emotionally nor yet financially was she able to cope with the responsibility of motherhood".
	www.radiovolta.org /articles/decleyre_bio.shtml (7359 words)

	Press Action ::: Keeping Anarchism Alive: In Remembrance of Professor Paul Avrich
		Paul Avrich was born in New York City on August 4, 1931.
		Avrich was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize several times and in 1984 he won the Philip Taft Labor History Award.
		Avrich taught at Queens College of the City University of New York and at Columbia University.
	www.pressaction.com /news/weblog/full_article/avrich02212006 (569 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Paul Avrich
		Avrich was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a Jewish family originally from Odessa.
		Avrich's other work included The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States (1980) which dealt with the radical schools inspired by the ideas of the Spanish anarchist educationalist Francisco Ferrer i Guardia, which survived from 1910 to 1960.
		Avrich was nominated several times for the Pulitzer prize, and in 1984 he won won the Philip Taft Labor History award.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1750715,00.html (454 words)

	AK PRESS :: Paul Avrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Avrich was one of the best, and most prolific, chroniclers of anarchist history.
		Avrich was born in New York City in 1931.
		The Paul Avrich Collection, over 20,000 manuscripts and publications on American and European anarchism, is housed at the Library of Congress.
	www.akpress.org /paulavrichobituary (344 words)

	September 18, 1995 - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
		Avrich is Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the graduate school of the City University of New York.
		Avrich is not an anarchist, but the FBI keeps a thick file on him, he said.
		Avrich's lecture in the Mumford Room was part of a series on the Italian influence on American culture.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9517/sacco.html (760 words)

	Our Daily Dead » Blog Archive » Paul Avrich, 74, a Historian of Anarchism, Is Dead
		Paul Avrich, 74, a Historian of Anarchism, Is Dead
		Paul Avrich, a historian of the anarchist movement that played a role in the Russian Revolution and flourished in America in the 19th and early 20th centuries, died on Feb. 16 at Mount Sinai Hospital.
		Avrich took issue with the prevalent image of the anarchist as violent and amoral.
	www.ourdailydead.com /paul-avrich.htm (280 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background: Books: Paul Avrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Now Paul Avrich, the preeminent American scholar of anarchism, looks at the case from this new and valuable perspective.
		Paul Avrich has made a career out of anarchist history -- anarchistory, I suppose you'd call it.
		Avrich has a very readable writing style, and the book is jam-packed with historical references and interesting stories.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Sacco-Vanzetti-Background-Paul-Avrich/dp/0691026041 (555 words)

	portland imc - 2006.02.20 - Paul Avrich, radical historian, 1931-2006
		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.
		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.
		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.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2006/02/334354.shtml (516 words)

	Paul Avrich, 74, Historian of Anarchism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paul Avrich, who died February 27 at 74, was a professor of history at Queens College and the leading historian of anarchism in America and Russia.
		Avrich pinned the blame on Mario Buda, an Italian anarchist enraged by the indictment of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, also Italian anarchists, on murder charges widely believed to be a frame-up.
		Avrich wrote at length about the latter case in “Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background” (1991), presenting evidence that the two were dedicated bomb makers and not dreamy idealists, as many believed of at least Vanzetti.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2006/02/24&ID=Ar02200 (661 words)

	Paul Avrich 1931-2006 - North America / Mexico History of anarchism - Anarkismo
		Avrich's work reflected his skills as a linguist, the absolute importance he placed on primary sources and his perseverance in finding them, an ability to sustain long, and sometimes fruitless periods of research and a writing style that enabled him to encapsulate his findings in a readable and engaging manner.
		Much remains to be done to complete the work started by Paul Avrich (It is to be hoped that his long worked on life of Alexander Berkman will see the light of day) and we should finish by making some final comments on his legacy.
		When he began his studies Avrich was chastised by his tutor for studying those who had "lost." It is an interesting thought that his honest and thorough approach grounded in primary sources may well have given anarchists, should they choose to read him, some of the tools to succeed.
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=2522 (1882 words)

	In Memoriam: Paul Avrich
		Avrich was a noted historian of Russian history, and the leading historian of the anarchist movement throughout the world, a scholarly pursuit that was his personal passion.
		Avrich's work was characterized by clear analysis and a masterful narrative.
		Paul Avrich was an avid music lover (we shared a love of Mozart and a non-love of Wagner) and a private person who did not advertise his generosity.
	www.historians.org /Perspectives/issues/2006/0605/0605mem1.cfm (498 words)

	New & Recent Books: The Ecumenical Spirit and the Libertarian Movement » Rational Review
		Avrich points out that "for twenty-five years she was an active agitator and propagandist and, as a glance through the files of the anarchist press will show, one of the movement's most respected and devoted representatives." (xix) She wrote for all the major anarchist journals of the time.
		As Avrich tells the story, "The Haymarket affair, one of the most famous incidents in the history of the anarchist movement, began on May 3, 1886, when the Chicago police fired into a crowd of strikers at the McCormick Reaper Works, killing and wounding several men.
		According to Avrich, she believed that "the amount of administration required by Economic Communism would practically be a meddlesome government, denying equal freedom." Yet she did not try, as Tucker did, to read the communists out of the movement.
	www.rationalreview.com /content/12006 (5680 words)

	Avrich Interview
		Avrich was one of 12 students chosen to travel to the Soviet Union.
		Avrich’s daughter Jane, now 37 and a published short story writer, remembers long walks with her father through the Upper West Side to visit old anarchists in small, dark, dusty apartments.
		Avrich does not shy away from controversy in his books, treating the anarchist acts of violence honestly and in the context of the time.
	www.deadanarchists.org /avrich.html (1983 words)

	Jessica Moran
		According to Paul Avrich, the preeminent historian of American anarchism, “a revolutionary anarchist movement of considerable strength took shape in the United States” between 1880 and1883.
		While Paul Avrich’s The Haymarket Tragedy (1984) expertly details the emergence of anarchist communism in America leading up to the events of Haymarket, the development of a native and immigrant fusion of anarchist communism, which combined economic and political change, with social change, as documented through Firebrand, has yet to be examined.
		Avrich discusses de Cleyre’s political evolution, which came out of an indigenous American tradition of individualism and then moved to an anarchism that embraced both individualism and communist.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~jmmoran/firebrand_communism.htm (4432 words)

	Paul Flewers: Socialism and the Intelligentsia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paul Avrich, the sympathetic historian of Russian anarchism, says that ‘nowhere in Europe was there greater hostility towards the educated classes than in the villages of mother Russia’.
		Avrich says that ‘most Russian anarchists harboured a deep-seated distrust of rational systems and of the intellectuals who constructed them’, although this anti-intellectualism ‘existed in varying degrees’ within the anarchist movement.
		Both Shatz and Avrich consider that much of Machajski’s critique of the relationship between socialism and the intelligentsia paralleled that of Bakunin, although the former says ‘he never acknowledged his influence’.
	www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/supplem/machajsk.html (6034 words)

	What was the Kronstadt Rebellion? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As Paul Avrich notes, "every effort was made to discredit the rebels" and that the "chief object of Bolshevik propaganda was to show that the revolt was not a spontaneous outbreak of mass protest but a new counterrevolutionary conspiracy, following the pattern established during the Civil War.
		Paul Avrich notes that when trouble erupted "the Bolsheviks at once denounced him as the evil genius of the movement," "outlawed" him and seized his family as hostages.
		Avrich notes that the Kronstadter's "passionately hated" the Whites and that "both during and afterwards in exile" they "indignantly rejected all government accusations of collaboration with counterrevolutionary groups either at home or abroad." As the Communists themselves acknowledged, no outside aid ever reached the insurgents.
	anarchism.ws /faq/append42.html (18022 words)

	The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution (Paul Avrich)
		In The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution, Paul Avrich presents some fifty documents or extracts from 1917 to 1921, most of them translated from Russian and taken from articles, manifestos, speeches, letters, diaries, and poems.
		Avrich begins with some anarchist responses to the February Revolution.
		Avrich does a good job with his introduction, but some familiarity with the events of the Revolution and the history of socialist thought is still assumed.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Anarchists_Russian.html (565 words)

	Cleyre
		Avrich himself, a careful historian not given to undue praise, concludes that she was a "first-rate intellect."
		Avrich dispels the myth created by erroneous claims of Rudolph Rocker and Emma Goldman that Voltairine became a communist anarchist.
		The photos of Voltairine included in Avrich's biography testify to the truth of these views — pictured is a delicate woman with soft, mysterious beauty that is a sharp contrast to Emma's earthy robustness.
	www.alf.org /papers/DeCleyre.shtml (2000 words)

	H-Net Review: Charles A. Zappia on Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America
		Avrich's most recent work is a compilation of 180 interviews he conducted over a period of nearly thirty years.
		The "ethnic anarchists," as revealed in the words of Avrich's informants, retained affection for their distinctive cultural traditions, worked hard, and were serious about their ideals while still doing all they could to enjoy the simple pleasures of everyday life.
		Avrich's notes are particularly helpful in identifying individuals, publications, events, and movements mentioned with little or no explication in the interviews.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29865846540468 (4802 words)

	Amazon.com: Sacco and Vanzetti: Books: Paul Avrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Sacco and Vanzetti case may never be fully resolved; but we have Paul Avrich to thank for bringing us tantalizingly close to the conclusion of a fascinating story.
		Avrich's book is extraordinary as an account of the varied principle protagonists in the Italian Anarchist circles of 80 years ago, though it provides only a historical account of the characters without a perspective of history's judgment.
		Avrich gives rich detail into the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti as well as all of the other mad bombers running around New York and Boston.
	www.amazon.com /Sacco-Vanzetti-Paul-Avrich/dp/0691026041 (1957 words)

	Paul Avrich \| libcom.org
		A short sketch of the life of a young Russian anarchist sailor who, in collaboration with the Bolsheviks and others, was on hand to disperse both the Provisional Government in October 1917 and the Constituent Assembly in January 1918.
		The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution, Paul Avrich.
		We present this in PDF format (270kb) but hope to convert it to text in the near future.
	libcom.org /library/paul-avrich (319 words)

	Infoshop News - Paul Avrich, radical historian, 1931-2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Paul could have edited these interviews or turned them into propaganda, but no, he knew that we have a lot more to learn from reality and from really listening to others verses simply turning into walking rhetoric machines.
		Paul will be missed, he was the living embodiment of struggling for a revolutionary memory, a walking oral history library and a gigantic time capsule all in one.
		Avrich was always at these funerals; many of these folks had been sources in his work.
	www.infoshop.org /inews/article.php?story=20060220094433788 (2130 words)

	Paul Avrich, 74, a Historian of Anarchism, Is Dead - New York Times
		Born in Brooklyn to Rose Zapol Avrich, an actress in the Yiddish theater, and Murray Avrich, a dress manufacturer, he graduated from Cornell and earned his master's and doctoral degrees at Columbia.
		Avrich said her husband collected letters, papers, books and photos of leading anarchists and donated a collection of 20,000 items to the Library of Congress.
		Avrich spent his entire academic career at Queens College, where he began as a Russian history instructor in 1961 and retired in 1999.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/02/24/nyregion/24avrich.html?ex=1298437200&en=3bc52525bec8c6fc&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (597 words)

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