Living My Life - Emma Goldman [322]
11 Karl Radek (1885-1939): German socialist, Russian Bolshevik, and Trotskyist journalist. Elected to the Bolshevik Central Committee in 1920, he was expelled from the party after Lenin’s death and purged by Stalin in 1937. Karl Liebnecht (1871-1919): German socialist and active anti-militarist, murdered by German soldiers in 1919. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919): Polish-born socialist, revolutionary, intellectual theorist, writer, and publisher. She was murdered by antirevolutionary soldiers in Germany in 1919. Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) German anarchist murdered by antirevolutionary soldiers in Germany in 1919.
12 Nikolai Bukharin (1888-1938): Bolshevik theoretician and leader, member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. He was tried and executed in the last Stalinist purges of old Bolsheviks.
13 izvostchik: the driver of a carriage.
14 Kharitonensky: Soviet guest house.
15 Soukharevka: main market in Moscow.
16 Anatol Lunacharsky (1875-1933): As commissar of education in the Soviet government, 1917-29, he directed the development of new socialist education and culture.
17 Angelica Balabanoff (1877-1965): Russian politician, active in Russian and Italian socialist movements. Elected secretary at the First International Congress in 1919, she emigrated from Russia in 1924 as an anti-Bolshevik.
18 Errico Malatesta (1853-1932): Italian anarchist and publisher.
19 Makhnovtsy: followers of Russian anarchist anti-Bolshevik Nestor Makhno; ideiny anarchists identified those who believed in the principles of anarchism but were not committed to anarchist political action.
20 The Third International was convened in Moscow in March 1919 to implement the dictatorship of the proletariat.
21 Vera Figner (1852-1943): revolutionary socialist, one of the Russian revolutionary women who had inspired the young Emma Goldman (see LML, 1970, 362). Figner had joined in the successful conspiracy to assassinate Czar Alexander II, for which she was arrested in 1883 and released from Siberia in 1904. Figner was highly critical of the Bolshevik Revolution and for many years was in danger of being arrested. During her residence in the Soviet Union, EG met Figner and was moved by her resilience and animation (see LML, 1970, 894-95).
22 Ethel Bernstein: A fellow deportee and victim of the Palmer Raids, she had been assigned to EG as one of her roommates aboard the Buford. At EG’s request, Bernstein and fellow roommate Dora Lipkin were given rooms near hers and Berkman’s at the once fashionable czarist hotel, the Astoria (see LML, 1970, 711, 727).
23 Bakayev: Petrograd chief of the Cheka police. EG reported he was “known as very vindictive towards anarchists” (see LML, 1970, 785).
24 a certain American journalist: EG refers to John Clayton, who represented the Chicago Tribune, “one of the reactionary papers in the U.S.” (see LML, 1970, 788).
25 Bertrand Russell (1872-1970): philosopher, mathematician, and social activist, he became critical of Bolshevism after visiting the Soviet Union in 1920.
26 EG had been introduced to Henry Alsberg earlier (see LML, 1970, 794-95) and had found in him “the best that was in America—sincerity and easy joviality.” Allsberg arrived in the Soviet Union as a correspondent for the Nation magazine and the London Daily Herald, traveling with a British Labour mission. Less impressed by publisher Albert Boni, EG laughed after hearing of his arrest as a possible “counter revolutionary,” saying he was “far from rebelling against any established institution, whether revolutionary or otherwise” (see LML, 1970, 832).
27 Nestor Makhno (1884-1934): anarchist leader of nationalist anti-czarist and anti-Bolshevik movement in the Ukraine during the civil war (1918-20).
28 povstantsy: czarist term for Bolshevik rebels.
29 Vladimir Korolenko (1853-1921): Ukrainian short-story writer, populist with international reputation for moral integrity. Protested against injustices after the October Revolution.
30 The prophet of Yasnaya Polyana: The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was