Why? Or, How A Peasant Got Into The Land Of Anarchy
An Anarchist Fairytale from the Russian Revolution
$37.00
- Paperback
110 pages
- Release Date
8 June 2023
Summary
Why? follows the travels of a boy named Pochemu - ‘Why’ in Russian - as he tries to understand the Tsar’s empire, capitalism, state violence, and more. The answers his rapid-fire questions elicit, which make less and less sense the deeper he probes, are just as ridiculous today as they were a century ago, and just as descriptive of a society gone wrong. When Pochemu eventually enters the Land of Anarchy, he is confronted by his own strangeness to its citizens, who study the bizarre customs he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849355025 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849355029 |
| Author: | Abba Gordin, Wolf Gordin, Jesse S. Cohn |
| Publisher: | AK Press |
| Imprint: | AK Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 110 |
| Release Date: | 8 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“A charming and frequently hilarious fairytale about anarchy from the first days after the Russian revolution” –Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood and, with Marwan Hisham, Brothers of the Gun
About The Author
Abba Gordin
Abba Gordin (1887-1964) was a witness to the Russian Revolution as a young adult. Persecuted under the Bolsheviks he emigrated to the US in 1927 and became co-editor of the Yiddish anarchist paper Freie Arbeiter Stimme. He is author of numerous works in Russian, Yiddish, and English.
Wolf Gordin (1885-1974) was a prolific writer of literature and essays, with a special interest in youth liberation. He emigrated to the US in 1926 where he continued to contribute to anarchist periodicals.
Jesse S. Cohn is the author of Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011 and the translator of Daniel Colson’s Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism From Proudhon to Deleuze. A board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, he teaches English in Northwest Indiana.
Eugene Kuchinov is a publisher of texts by anarcho-biocosmists, pan-anarchists (and figures of other strange anarchisms), a philosopher and translator. He is a researcher and lecturer at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia).
Nina Gourianova is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Northwestern University.
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