Alexander Berkman

Question 1

Who participated in the 8 hour workday strikes?

Answer 1

Spring 1886 was when Chicago protestors began protesting for it, and anarchists were crucial to it.

Question 2

Who did Alexander Berkman befriend and later romance?

Answer 2

Emma Goldman

Question 3

Who would Berkman attempt to assassinate and why?

Answer 3

The State of Pennsylvania workers fought against Andrew Carnegie, and Frick was the brutal man who commander Pinkerton thugs to kill workers, includig a child. This was the target

Question 4

What sussy thing did Emma Goldman do with Berkman?

Answer 4

She helped prepare the assassination.

Question 5

What happened to Berkman after the sussy act?

Answer 5

He was sent to jail for 22 years, but only spent 14 years, 12 months in solitary confinement to break him.

Question 6

What did he do after going to jail?

Answer 6

He joined a free Ferrer school, an anarchist style of school.

Question 7

What did he do before WW1?

Answer 7

He began a monthly newspaper with Emma Goldman

Question 8

What did he do when WW1 broke out with Emma Goldman?

Answer 8

He started an anti militarism campaign, opposed to conscription, with Emma Goldman.

Question 9

What happened once the war started? What did Alexander and co. do?

Answer 9

In 1916, during a preparedness parade, a bomb was thrown, which was blamed on anarchist militants Mooney and Billings. Alexander and co. naturally defended them and continued to oppose the war.

Question 10

What happened after the militant suppression to Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman? When?

Answer 10

In 1917, their No Conscription League was oppressed due to its popularity, and they were arrested along with other anarchists in New York.

Question 11

What mocked up punishment did Alexander and Emma get in 1917?

Answer 11

2 years imprisonment, a 10k fine, and deportation on release. Alexander was accused of being a part of parade bombing by San Francisco.

Question 12

What almost happened to Alexander? What stopped it?

Answer 12

He was almost sent by NY authorities to SF, but Fed Washington authorities were scared by protests from Trade Unions delegations. Also Petrograd anarchist workers and Kondast sailors protested and threatened the life of the American Ambassador to Russia.

Question 13

What was Berkman’s 2nd experience in jail?

Answer 13

2 years, seven months in solitary, and a statement to J. Edgar Hoover that he would follow his conscience.

Question 14

What happened during WW1 in Russia in 1917? Who fought?

Answer 14

A revolution. A popular revolt such that soldiers were sent out to fight against workers and allied peasants.

Question 15

What was the first result of the 1917 Revolution in March?

Answer 15

Mutinies, hundreds of thousands of dissenters from army, headed homeward with workers and peasants.

Question 16

What did the workers and peasants do in the Summer of 1917?

Answer 16

They seized factories, and kicked out landowners.

Question 17

How did the 1917 Russian government respond to the revolt? Who were in power?

Answer 17

The Liberal party, Prince Lvov and then Alexander Kerensky attempted to continue the war but were discredited by October-November.

Question 18

How did Bolsheviks seize power?

Answer 18

They took control of key councils, soviets, like Petrograd Soviet who performed a coup d’etat. Others coups followed, in Moscow and elsewhere. Became government.

Question 19

How did Anarchists respond to the revolution?

Answer 19

They were initially supportive and helped until the Bolsheviks tried to set up a gov, straining relations.

Question 20

How did Communists treat other revolutionaries?

Answer 20

Anarchists and co, were shot by the Communist secret police.

Question 21

What happened after the Treaty of Brestlitovsk?

Answer 21

Non-Russian Imperialist powers intervened, Anarchists gave conditional support to the regime and Red Army, but relationships between them got worse.

Question 22

What happened in Ukraine after the treaty?

Answer 22

Makno’s anarchist group first fought the Austrio-Germans, then Denkin White Armies, then the Bolsehviks (after a very shaky agreement).