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An Anarchist FAQ (16/17) The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective June 18, 2009. Version 13.1 Contents Bibliography for FAQ 3 Anarchist Anthologies 5 Anarchist and Libertarian Works 6 Works about Anarchism 29 Non-Anarchist Works 33 2 Bibliography for FAQ 3 This bibliography lists all the books quoted in the FAQ. However, details forsome of these books is missing. This information will also be added to over time. Some books are listed in more than one edition. This is due to the process of revising the FAQ for publication and using the most recent versions of books quoted. Once the revision is complete, the old details will be removed. The bibliography is split into four sections: Anthologies of Anarchist authors; books by anarchists and other libertarians; books about anarchism, anarchists and anarchist history by non-libertarians; and books by non-anarchists/libertarians. 4 Anarchist Anthologies • Brook, Frank H. (Ed.), The Individualist Anarchists: An Anthology ofLib- erty (1881–1908), Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, 1994. • Dark Star (Ed.), Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader, AK Press/ Dark Star, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 2002. – Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the beach, May 1968, AK Press/Dark Star, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 2001. • Ehrlich, Howard J, Carol Ehrlich, David De Leon, Glenda Morris (eds.), Rein- venting Anarchy: What are Anarchists thinking these days?, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1979. • Ehrlich, Howard J. (Ed.), Reinventing Anarchy, Again, AK Press, Edinburgh/ San Francisco, 1996. • Glassgold, Peter (Ed.), Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman’s Mother Earth, Counterpoint, Washington D.C., 2001. • Graham, M. (Ed.), Man! An Anthology of Anarchist Ideas, Essays, Poetry and Commentaries, Cienfuegos Press, London, 1974. • Graham, Robert (Ed.), Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas — Volume 1: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300CE to 1939), Black Rose Books, Montreal/New York/London, 2005. • Guerin, Daniel (Ed.), No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism (in two volumes), AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1998. • Krimerman, Leonard I. and Perry, Lewis, Patterns of Anarchy: A Collection of Writings on the Anarchist Tradition, Anchor Books, New York, 1966. • Woodcock, George (Ed.), The Anarchist Reader, Fontana, Glasgow, 1987. 5 Anarchist and Libertarian Works • ACF, Marxism and Its Failures, ACE Editions, London, 1990. • Ackelsberg, Martha A., Free Women of Spain: anarchism and the struggle for the emancipation of women, AK Press, Oakland/Edinburgh, 2005. – Free Women of Spain: anarchism and the struggle for the emancipa- tion of women, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1991. • Anderson, Andy, Hungary ’56, Phoenix Press, London, date unknown. • Anonymous, “Community Organising in Southern Italy”, Black Flag, no. 210, pp. 16–19. • Anonymous, Fighting the Revolution (2 volumes), Freedom Press, London, 1985. • Anonymous, Red Years Black Years: Anarchist Resistance to Fascism in Italy, ASP, London, 1989. • Anonymous, “Trotskyism, Lies and Anarchism”, Black Flag, no. 211, pp. 24–5. • Anger, Max, “The Spartacist School of Falsification”, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, no, 43, Spring/Summer 1997, pp. 50–2. • Arshinov, Peter, The History of the Makhnovist Movement, Freedom Press, London, 1987. – The Two Octobers available at: flag.blackenEd.net • Avrich, Paul (Ed.), The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1973. • Avrich, Paul, An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1978. – Kronstadt 1921, W.W. Norton and Company Inc., New York, 1970. – The Russian Anarchists, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1978. 6 – Anarchist Portraits, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1988. – The Haymarket Tragedy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1984. – “Bolshevik Opposition To Lenin: G. Miasnikov and the Workers Group”, pp. 1–29, Russian Review, vol. 43, no. 1 – Bolshevik Opposition To Lenin: G. Miasnikov and the Workers Group, available at: www.geocities.com • Bakunin, Micheal, The Basic Bakunin, Robert M. Cutler (trans. and Ed.), Promethus Books, Buffalo, N.Y., 1994. – Bakunin on Anarchism, 2nd Edition, Sam Dolgoff (Ed.), Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1980. – The Political Philosophy of Bakunin, G.P. Maximov (Ed.), The Free Press, New York, 1953. – Michael Bakunin: Selected Writings, Arthur Lehning (Ed.), Jonathan Cape, London, 1973. – Statism and Anarchy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990. – God and the State, Dover, New York, 1970. – Marxism, Freedom and the State, K.J. Kenafick (Ed.), Freedom Press, London, 1984. • Barclay, Harold, The State, Freedom Press, London, 2003. • Barrett, George, “The Anarchist Revolution” contained in The Last War, Pi- rate Press, Sheffield, 1990. – “Objections to Anarchism”, The Raven: Anarchist Quarterly, no. 12 (Vol. 3, No. 4), Oct-Dec 1990, Freedom Press, pp. 339–364. – Objections to Anarchism available at www.spunk.org • Bennello, George, “The Challenge of Mondragon” in Reinventing Anarchy, Again, Howard Ehrlich (Ed.), AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1996. • Bennello, George C., From the Ground Up, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1992. • Berkman, Alexander, What is Anarchism?, AK Press, Edinburgh/London/ Oakland, 2003. – The ABC of Anarchism, Freedom Press, London, 1977. 7 – What is Communist Anarchism?, Phoenix Press, London, 1989. – The Russian Tragedy, Phoenix Press, London, 1986. – The Bolshevik Myth, Pluto Press, London, 1989. – Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman reader, Gene Fellner (Ed.), Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1992. • Berkman, Alexander (Ed.), The Blast, AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2005. • Berneri, Camillo, Peter Kropotkin: His Federalist Ideas, available at: dward- mac.pitzer.edu • Berneri, Marie-Louise, Neither East Nor West: Selected Writings 1939–48, Freedom Press, London, 1988. – Journey Through Utopia, Freedom Press, London, 1982. • Berry, David, A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917–1945, Greenwood Press, Westport, 2002. • Black, Bob, The Abolition of Work and other essays, Loompanics Unlimited, Port Townsend, undatEd. – The Abolition of Work, available at www.spunk.org – The Libertarian as Conservative, available at www.applicom.com – Smokestack Lighting, available at www.geocities.com – Anarchy After Leftism, CAL Press, Columbia, 1997. • Bonanno, Alfredo M., Anarchism and the National Liberation Struggle, Bratach Dubh Editions, Catania, 1981. • Bookchin, Murray, Post Scarcity Anarchism, 3rd Edition, AK Press, Edin- burgh/Oakland, 2004. – Post Scarcity Anarchism, Wildwood House, London, 1971. – The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868–1936, AK Press, Ed- inburgh/San Francisco, 1998. – The Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era, Volume 1, Cassel, London, 1996. – The Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era, Volume 2, Cassel, London, 1998. 8 – Toward an Ecological Society, Black Rose, Montreal, 1980. – Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future, South End Press, Boston, MA., 1990. – Social Anarchism and Lifestyle Anarchism, AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1995. – The Modern Crisis, New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, 1986. – The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierar- chy, AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2005 – The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierar- chy, Cheshire Books, Palo Alto, California, 1982. – “Communalism: The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism”, Democracy and Nature, No. 8 (vol. 3, no. 2), pp. 1–12. – Which Way for the Ecology Movement?, AK Press, Edinburgh/San Francisco, 1994. – The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Black Rose Books, Montreal/New York, 1990. – From Urbanisation to Cities: Toward a New Politics of Citizenship, Cassell, London, 1995. – “Nationality and the ‘National Question’”, Society and Nature, no. 5, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 8–36. – The Communist Manifesto: Insights and Problems, available at: dwardmac.pitzer.edu – “Looking Back at Spain,” The Radical Papers, pp. 53–96, Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (Ed.), Black Rose Books, Montreal/New York, 1987 – The Murray Bookchin Reader, Janet Biehl (Ed.), Cassell, London, 1997. • Bookchin, Murray and Dave Foreman, Defending the Earth: A Dialogue be- tween Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman, Black Rose Books, Montreal/ New York. • Bradford, George, How Deep is Deep Ecology?, Times Change Press, Cali- fornia, 1989. – “Woman’s Freedom: Key to the Population Question”, pp. 65–84, How Deep is Deep Ecology?, Times Change Press, California, 1989. 9 • Bricianer, Serge Pannekoek and the Workers’ Councils, Telos Press, Saint Louis, 1978. • Brinton, Maurice, For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton, David Goodway (Ed.), AK Press, Edinburgh/Oakland, 2004. – The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control 1917 to 1921: the Stateand Counter-Revolution, Solidarity and Black and Red, London and De- troit, 1975. – The Irrational in Politics, Soldarity (London), London, 1975. • Brown, L. Susan, The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Femi- nism and Anarchism, Black Rose, Montreal/New York, 1993. • Brown, Tom, Syndicalism, Phoenix Press, London, 1990. • Buber, Martin, Paths in Utopia, Beacon Press, Boston, 1958. • Carson, Kevin A., The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand, available at: www.mutualist.org – Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, available at: www.mutualist.org • Carter, Alan, Marx: A Radical Critique, Wheatsheaf Books, Brighton, 1988. • Casa, Juan Gomez, Anarchist Organisation: The History of ,the FAI Black Rose Books, Montreal, 1986.
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