Paul Avrich

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Paul Avrich (born August 4, 1931 in New York City , † February 17, 2006 ibid) was an American historian who specialized in the history of anarchism .

Life

Avrich, who came from a Jewish family, served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War , which sent him to Syracuse University to study Russian. He then worked for the American secret service in the Federal Republic of Germany, where he had the task of collecting information about the Soviet Air Force stationed in Europe. The language skills he acquired during the Cold War enabled him to specialize in Russian history while studying.

Avrich first studied at Cornell University and received his doctorate in 1961 from Columbia University in New York with a thesis on the factory committees in the Russian Revolution. From 1961 to 1999 he taught as a professor at Queens College in New York. Avrich was considered one of the best experts in the history of Russian and American anarchism, a movement for which he himself harbored great sympathy. He died of Alzheimer's disease in 2006 .

Fonts

  • The Russian Anarchists. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1967 (translations into French, Japanese, Spanish and Italian)
  • Kronstadt 1921. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1970 (translations into French, Spanish and Czech)
  • Russian Rebels 1600-1800. Schocken Books , NY 1972
  • The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution. Cornell University Press , NY 1973 (translation into Italian)
  • An American anarchist. The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1978
  • Modern School Movement. Anarchism and Education in the United States. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1980
  • Haymarket Tragedy . Princeton University Press , 1984
  • Anarchist portraits. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1988.
  • Sacco and Vanzetti. The Anarchist Background. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1991.
  • Anarchist Voices. An Oral History of Anarchism in America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 1995

literature

  • Marianne Enckell: Paul Avrich (1931-2006). Obituary. In: Graswurzelrevolution No. 312, Volume 35, October 2006, p. 19

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personal data
SURNAME Avrich, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 2006
Place of death New York City