Communism -- Soviet Union; Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Personal narratives, American
MY FURTHER DISILLUSIONMENT
IN RUSSIA
My
Further Disillusionment
in Russia
By
Emma Goldman
_Being a Continuation of Miss Goldman’s
Experiences in Russia as given in “My
Disillusionment in Russia”_
[Illustration: colophon]
Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1924
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
_First Edition_
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
Some years ago Emma Goldman was deported from this country and went to
Russia to investigate personally what she believed to be the nearest
approach to a Utopia which the world had yet produced.
Her experiences so thoroughly disillusioned her that she conceived it to
be her duty to set forth these experiences and her conclusions, which
she did in a book entitled “My Disillusionment in Russia.” The rights in
this material she sold to an American newspaper syndicate from whom we
purchased the book rights, and by whom we were furnished with the copy
for the book. We published the book under date of October 26, 1923, and
not until it was in circulation did we learn that it was minus the last
twelve chapters which had never been turned over to us by the newspaper
syndicate, nor had any intimation been given us that the copy turned
over to us was incomplete. While the conclusion of the book as we
published it was abrupt it was not more so than is frequently the case;
and, therefore, there was no internal evidence to indicate its
incompleteness.
We are now rectifying this serious error by the publication in a
separate volume of the twelve missing chapters under the title, “My
Further Disillusionment in Russia.” This material is even more important
in its revelations and of even greater interest than that already
published.
PREFACE
The annals of literature tell of books expurgated, of whole chapters
eliminated or changed beyond recognition. But I believe it has rarely
happened that a work should be published with more than a third of it
left out and--without the reviewers being aware of the fact. This
doubtful distinction has fallen to the lot of my work on Russia.
The story of that painful experience might well make another chapter,
but for the present it is sufficient to give the bare facts of the case.
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