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Revision as of 21:14, May 29, 2007
Emma Goldman was born in 1869 in Lithuania. Goldman lectured throughout the United States advocating anarchy, birth control, and women’s rights. She was sent to jail several times and was eventually deported to Russia. She died in 1940.
When he arrived the Soviet Union, however, she was shocked by the tyrannical regime of Vladimir Lenin and wrote the book My Disillusionment in Russia (ISBN 048643270X) in 1923.
A firebrand revolutionary, she nevertheless insisted on her femininity, and is famous for saying "If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution."
Emma Goldman is one of the characters in E. L. Doctorow's novel, Ragtime. The musical Ragtime was based on Doctorow's novel.
