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In July 1917, Emma Goldman was sentenced to two years in prison as a result of her work in the No-Conscription League and her anti-war stand against World War I, which also caused Mother Earth to be shut down by the government. Article is on the her…

Mother Earth. New York, 1917, volume 12, number 5

Mother Earth. New York, 1917, volume 12, number 5

Mother Earth. New York, 1917, volume 12, number 5

Mother Earth. New York, 1917, volume 12, number 5

Mother Earth. New York, 1917, volume 12, number 5

Rafail Abramovich (Rein), born in Dvinsk, Russia 1880, died in New York 1963. One of the leaders of the Menshevik fraction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and Yiddish and Russian journalist. In 1918, he narrowly escaped the death…

Anarchism and other essays, by Emma Goldman, with biographic sketch by Hippolyte Havel

Mother Earth. New York, 1917, volume 12, number 5

In 1919, the United States was caught up in hysteria over a network of communist operatives. “Red Emma,” as she was called, was declared a subversive alien and in December, along with Alexander Berkman and 247 others, was deported to Soviet Russia.…

Photo of Men’shevik leaders and accompanying explanatory note written by Lidiia Dan to Boris Sapir. The note describes a little quarrel between Martov and Aksel’rod caught on this photo.

The photo was taken in Zurich in 1916, the note was…

Living in exile, Aronson, Dvinov and Sapir still discussed the present and future of Russia, and dedicated their lives to fighting the Bol’shevik dictatorship.

Invitation to the reception celebrating the first anniversary of the publication of the Men'shevik newspaper, Sotsialisticheskii Vestnik, in New York.

Moving from Europe to the USA, the Mensheviks continued to publish their newspaper…

Propositions introduced to the Executive Committee of the New York Group, RSDRP, by Comrade M. Peskin.

Notification about а closed meeting of the New York Group of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party.
Тhe notification gives the place and time of the meeting, announces the agenda, and expresses the wish that everybody would come on time.

This resolution reflects the situation of disagreements and splits within the party.

View of South Hall (Butler Library) as seen from Low Memorial Library, ca. 1934.

View of the north facade of South Hall (Butler Library), ca. 1934

View of South Hall (Butler Library) as seen from the South West Aspect on West 114th Street, ca. 1934.