Paul Avrich is a professor and historian. He has written extensively on topics related to anarchism, including books on Sacco and Vanzetti, the Haymarket Riot, and the Kronstadt rebellion. Other important works include The Modern School Movement and Anarchist Portraits. He has also edited the important oral history collection, Anarchist Voices. He has been nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize in history. A historian is a person who studies history. ... Anarchism is a range of political views whose name is derived from the Latin word anarchia which was first employed in translating Aristotles Greek term αναÏχία the privative prefix αν an- without is combined with αÏχία arkhê — meaning command or rule). Thus anarchism, in the most generally understood sense of the term... Sacco (Right) and Vanzetti (Left) Nicola Sacco (April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were two Italian anarchists, who were arrested, tried, and electrocuted in Massachusetts in 1927 on charges of murder of a shoe factory paymaster named Frederick Parmenter and a... The Haymarket Riot on 4 May 1886 in Chicago, Illinois is the origin of international May Day observances and in popular literature inspired the inaccurate caricature of the bomb-throwing anarchist. The causes of the incident are still controversial, although deeply polarized attitudes separating the business and working communities in... Red Army troops attack Kronstadt The Kronstadt rebellion was an unsuccessful uprising of Soviet sailors against the government of the early Russian SFSR. It proved to be the last major rebellion against Bolshevik rule. ... Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-13, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ...
PaulAvrich died in New York on the morning of the 17th February 2006.
Paul was of a Jewish family originally from Odessa and was able to so to the USSR to study as a result of Nikita Kruschev's visit to the United States in 1959 where he not only banged his shoe but also authorised student exchanges.
PaulAvrich was a faithful friend of the CIRA and contributed generously to its finances and its collections (after one of our last meetings he supported the Russian publication of Volin and offered a preface).
PaulAvrich, distinguished historian of anarchism, died on February 16, 2006 at the age of seventy-four.
PaulAvrich literally forged a new field and legitimized it with spectacular, prolific scholarship that became the basis of all work on the history of anarchism thereafter.
PaulAvrich, the foremost historian of anarchism in the world, was a humble scholar, a spellbinding speaker, a welcoming mentor.
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