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Коллизии русского и американского анархизма начала XX века
Americans”: Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, as well as Piotr
Kropotkin and Leo Tolstoy, who had a great influence on them. The article
focuses on imagology and the principle of mirror representation of some
stereotypes in Russian and American culture. The author analyzes how
American anarchists overcame the stereotypes of Russia as an exclusively
slave “prison of peoples” and America as an exclusively free and democratic
country. In contrast to the stereotype of Russia as America’s “dark twin”,
common in the journalism of both countries, they defended the opposite
view of revolutionary Russia as a model of true freedom in comparison to
slave capitalist America. The article discusses the peculiar “anarchist” status
of L.N. Tolstoy, who, despite his proximity to this current, cannot be classified
as a member of it because of his typically Christian, nonresistant and
subjectivist position. The article introduces the anarchist journal “Mother
Earth” and examines the article “America and Russia”, attributed to Tolstoy
by the American press.