Anarchy and Anarchists : A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy, and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators

Michael J. Schaack

ISBN 10: 1330759273 / ISBN 13: 9781330759271

Edité par Forgotten Books Mai 2018, 2018

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• Titre: Anarchy and Anarchists : A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy, and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators
• Éditeur: Forgotten Books Mai 2018
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1330759273
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781330759271
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 36 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 36 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1949 grammes

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Synopsis

The book surveys the rise of anarchism and its courtroom battles across America and Europe. A clear, source-backed narrative invites readers to understand how ideas became movements and how governments responded.

Drawing on court records and investigative reporting, this history covers the spread of anarchist thought, major conspiracies, and the trials that drew public attention. It presents a plain, evidence-based account of the era’s clashes between reform, rebellion, and the rule of law.

• A focused look at key events, movements, and the people who shaped them
• How police and prosecutors pursued conspiracies and how justice was served
• Profiles of influential figures and the spread of radical literature
• Context for the social and political forces behind late 19th–century unrest

Ideal for readers curious about modern social movements, legal history, and the roots of anarchist discourse.

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Excerpt from Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy, and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators

It has seemed to me that there should be a history of the development,

the revolt, and the tragedy of Anarchy in Chicago. This history I have written as impartially and as fairly as I knew how to write it. I have kept steadily before my eyes the motto, -

"Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."

It will be found in the succeeding pages that neither animosity against the revolutionists, nor partiality to the State, has influenced the work. I have dealt with this episode in Chicago's history as calmly and as fairly as I am able. I have tried to put myself in the position of the misguided men whose conspiracy led to the Haymarket explosion and to the gallows; to understand their motives; to appreciate their ideals - for so only could this volume be properly written.

And to present a broader view, I have added a history of all forms of Socialism, Communism, Nihilism and Anarchy. In this, though necessarily brief, it has been the purpose to give all the important facts, and to set forth the theories of all those who, whether moderate or radical, whether sincerely laboring in the interests of humanity or boisterously striving for notoriety, have endeavored or pretended to improve upon the existing order of society.

After the dynamite bomb exploded, carrying death into the ranks of men with whom I had been for years closely associated - after an impudent attack had been made upon our law and upon our system, which I was sworn to defend - it came to me as a duty to the State, a duty to my dead and wounded comrades, to bring the guilty men to justice; to expose the conspiracy to the world, and thus to assist in vindicating the law. How the duty was performed, this story...