# Ravitch — My Disillusionment in Russia character guide

> Ravitch in My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Madame Ravitch

**First appearance:** 0021-xix-in-kharkov

## Who they are

Anarchist woman active in the movement, met in the Ukraine.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_friendship_

Ravitch is a fellow anarchist and comrade who provides companionship and support to the narrator during the revolution.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_friendship_

Ravitch is a fellow anarchist and comrade who provides companionship and support to the narrator during the revolution.

## In the story

### [Preparing for American Deportees](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/vi-preparing-for-american-deportees)

Minister of Internal Affairs for the Northern District; too occupied to actively participate in the preparations.

### [Industrial Militarization](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/ix-industrial-militarization)

Ravitch helps arrange the narrator's factory visits after Zorin was evasive.

### [X: The British Labour Mission](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/x-the-british-labour-mission)

Madame Ravitch gives a speech at the farewell banquet praising Russian women proletarians, which the narrator interprets.

### [XII: Beneath the Surface](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xii-beneath-the-surface)

Ravitch is mentioned among the Communists the narrator had learned to know, now associated with the regime's betrayals.

### [Death and Funeral of Peter Kropotkin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/my_disillusionment_in_russia_se/chapters/xxvi-death-and-funeral-of-peter-kropotkin)

Ravitch informs the narrator in Petrograd that Kropotkin has grown worse and that she is needed in Moscow.

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