Alexander Berkman was a well-known anarchist who led an avant-garde movement in the U.S. He was a part of a principal Jewish anarchist group, ‘Pioneers of Liberty’. He was given 22 years prison sentence on the charge of his attempted murder of a factory manager. He attempted to unite working class to organize a revolution against the capitalist system. Due to his failure in this murder attempt, he earned strong disapproval from the workers’ groups and anarchists. He published anarchist journals titled “Mother Earth” and “The Blast” to encourage anarchism. Due to his anarchist activities as part of his ‘No Conscription League’ in New York, he was imprisoned for two years. Later the government deported him to Russia. During his stay in Russia, he observed the state of repression, mismanagement and corruption. He penned his experience in Russia in the form of “The Bolshevik Myth”. He created many pamphlets on Russian Revolution. Some of them are “The Russian Tragedy”, “The Russian Revolution and the Communist Party” and “The Kronstadt Rebellion”. His “Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism” is an introduction that he wrote on the principles of anarchism. He wrote this piece to present the principles of anarchism in plain language.
