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Alexander Berkman
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Russian-American anarchist and writer (1870–1936)
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Alexander Berkman (1870–1936) was a male writer, journalist, typographer, and peace activist. Born in Vilnius, he held citizenship in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, the United States, and France. His political ideologies included anarchism and anarcho-communism, and he identified as an atheist. Berkman spoke German, Russian, Yiddish, and English, with English serving as his primary writing language.
His notable works include *Now and After*, *Down with the anarchists!*, and the *Kronstadt diary*. He was convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 and detained at the Federal Correctional Institution, Atlanta. Berkman’s archives are held at the International Institute of Social History. He was the unmarried partner of Emma Goldman.
Berkman died on June 28, 1936, in Nice from a gunshot wound, which was recorded as suicide.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 21 November 1870
- Died
- 28 June 1936
- Works
- 34
Top works
- Down with the anarchists!
- Kronstadt diary
- Now and After
- The "anti-climax"
- Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, plaintiffs-in-error, vs. the United States
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 129
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,118x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,689x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,552x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,609x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,980x
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Quotes
- “"Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.”
- “It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.”
- “Liberty is an empty sound as long as you are kept in bondage economically. [...] Freedom means that you have the right to do a certain thing; but if you have no opportunity to do it, that right is sheer mockery. The opportunity lies in your economic condition, whatever the political situation may be. No political rights can be of the least use to the man who is compelled to slave all his life to keep himself and family from starvation.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Ovsei Osipovich Berkman , ( 1870-11-21 ) November 21, 1870, Vilna , Russian Empire
- Died
- June 28, 1936 (1936-06-28) (aged 65), Nice , France
- Burial place
- Cochez Cemetery, Nice, France
- Occupations
- Writer anti-war and political activist
- Family
- Mark Natanson (uncle)
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Encyclopedic overview
Theory and practice
Anarchy
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