GOLDMAN EMMA My Disillusionment in Russia

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INSCRIBED AND SIGNED GOLDMAN, EMMA. My Disillusionment in Russia. 8vo, publisher's cloth, backstrip faded, minor wear; front endpapers unevenly toned; long gift inscription by the author on front free endpaper, bookplate of Stuart J. Eckerson on front pastedown. Garden City, NY, 1923

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Goldman had been deported to Soviet Russia during the Red Scare of 1919. She quickly became disillusioned with the Bolsheviks when she encountered first-hand their treatment of Russian anarchists. The inscription reads in full: "To my dear and faithful comrade W.S. Van Valkenbourgh, who understands so well that my disillusionment is not with the Revolution or with the people of Russia. It is with the regime which has promised so much and has fulfilled nothing. Fraternally, Emma Goldman, Montreal, Nov. 1926." Warren Starr Van Valkenburgh, who wrote as Walter Starrett, was a close anarchist associate of Goldman's.