in Russia_ and _My Further Disillusionment in Russia_
(the book was published in two separate volumes as a result of an
inadvertent misunderstanding) are charged with fanatic hatred. Both
insisted that Lenin and his monstrous crew were perverting the Russian
Revolution to their own sinister purposes and must be destroyed at all
costs. They made no effort to view the situation objectively.

In 1924 Emma was permitted to make her home in England. At once she
busied herself with plans to rouse the people against the Bolsheviki,
but found herself either snubbed or scorned. The liberals refused to
support her for fear of endangering Soviet Russia's precarious relations
with Great Britain; the radicals insisted on the need of bolstering the
Bolsheviki during the period of revolutionary experimentation. Her
lectures were poorly attended; her audiences failed to be impressed.
After two years of discouragement she decided to leave England
altogether. Shortly before her departure she married James Colton, an
old rebel, for the convenience of British citizenship.

A vacation in France preceded a lecture tour through Canada. Again on
American soil, she resumed the old pattern of agitation. But the
Dominion did not provide sufficient scope for her seething energy. And
when friends, who had long urged her to write her autobiography,
provided her with funds for that purpose, she returned to France.

_Living My Life_ appeared in 1932. It is a lively story, palpitating
with strong feeling and epitomizing the blazing years of her anarchist
activity. The writing is vivacious, forceful, exciting. The narrative is
colorful and wholly uninhibited. Emma's strong personality stamps every
page. She was as dynamic in her numerous amours as in her work for human
freedom, and she discusses both with equal zest. Her unrepressed egotism
prompts her to relate personal incidents which have little bearing on
her own development and none on that of anarchism--incidents that
sometimes reveal petty malice and that might better have been left
unrecorded. The final impression, however, is of her generous character,
her profound devotion to the ideal of liberty, her extraordinary energy,
her great courage, and her successful insistence on living her life in
her own way.

When Emma had completed her long book and was ready to resume her role
as lecturer and agitator, the menace of fascism drove the Bolshevik
betrayal from the forefront of her mind. A tour