# My Disillusionment in Russia — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman.

- [Preface to First Volume of American Edition](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/preface-to-first-volume-of-american-edition.md): Emma Goldman explains her motivation for writing this book: to correct the superficial and misleading accounts of the Russian Revolution written by outsiders, and to expose the growing gap between the Bolshevik regime an
- [Preface to Second Volume of American Edition](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/preface-to-second-volume-of-american-edition.md): Emma Goldman explains the circumstances behind the missing chapters of the first edition of her book, defends her critique of Bolshevism against reviewers like Henry Alsberg and H.L. Mencken, and argues that the Bolshevi
- [My Disillusionment in Russia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/my-disillusionment-in-russia.md): The narrator recounts the gradual erosion of their revolutionary idealism upon witnessing the harsh realities of Bolshevik rule, including state oppression, inequality, and the betrayal of revolutionary principles.
- [I: Deportation to Russia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/i-deportation-to-russia.md): Emma Goldman recounts her deportation from the United States on December 21, 1919, along with 248 other political prisoners aboard the Buford. After a twenty-eight-day journey through Finland, she arrives in revolutionar
- [II: Petrograd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/ii-petrograd.md): The narrator arrives in Petrograd in 1920 and finds a city devastated by war, famine, and political repression. Initially skeptical of anarchist accounts of Bolshevik betrayal, she attends a Soviet meeting where she witn

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- [III: Disturbing Thoughts](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/iii-disturbing-thoughts.md)
- [Moscow: First Impressions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/iv-moscow-first-impressions.md)
- [V: Meeting People](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/v-meeting-people.md)
- [Preparing for American Deportees](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/vi-preparing-for-american-deportees.md)
- [VII: Rest Homes for Workers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/vii-rest-homes-for-workers.md)
- [VIII: The First of May in Petrograd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/viii-the-first-of-may-in-petrograd.md)
- [Industrial Militarization](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/ix-industrial-militarization.md)
- [X: The British Labour Mission](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/x-the-british-labour-mission.md)
- [XI: A Visit from the Ukraine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xi-a-visit-from-the-ukraine.md)
- [XII: Beneath the Surface](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xii-beneath-the-surface.md)
- [XIII: Joining the Museum of the Revolution](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xiii-joining-the-museum-of-the-revolution.md)
- [XIV: Petropavlovsk and Schlüsselburg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xiv-petropavlovsk-and-schl-sselburg.md)
- [XV: The Trade Unions](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xv-the-trade-unions.md)
- [XVI: Maria Spiridonova](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xvi-maria-spiridonova.md)
- [Another Visit to Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xvii-another-visit-to-peter-kropotkin.md)
- [XVIII: En Route](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xviii-en-route.md)
- [XIX: In Kharkov](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xix-in-kharkov.md)
- [XX: Poltava](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xx-poltava.md)
- [Kiev](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxi-kiev.md)
- [XXII: Odessa](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxii-odessa.md)
- [XXIII: Returning to Moscow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxiii-returning-to-moscow.md)
- [Back in Petrograd](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxiv-back-in-petrograd.md)
- [XXV: Archangel and Return](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxv-archangel-and-return.md)
- [Death and Funeral of Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxvi-death-and-funeral-of-peter-kropotkin.md)
- [XXVII: Kronstadt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxvii-kronstadt.md)
- [XXVIII: Persecution of Anarchists](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxviii-persecution-of-anarchists.md)
- [XXIX: Travelling Salesmen of the Revolution](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxix-travelling-salesmen-of-the-revolution.md)
- [Education and Culture](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxx-education-and-culture.md)
- [XXXI: Exploiting the Famine](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxxi-exploiting-the-famine.md)
- [XXXII: The Socialist Republic Resorts to Deportation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxxii-the-socialist-republic-resorts-to-deportation.md)
- [Afterword](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxxiii-afterword.md)
- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/i.md)
- [The Betrayal of the Revolution](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/ii.md)
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/iii.md)
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/iv.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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