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Revolutionary Lives: Anna Strunsky & William English Walling. By James Boylan. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. viii, 334 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-55849-164-3.)

The radical Jewish immigrant journalist and novelist Anna Strunsky and the wasp millionaire socialist, journalist, and theoretician William English Walling, called English, were among the Left's most beautiful couples in the heyday of left bohemian culture in the first quarter of the twentieth century. They began their egalitarian marriage filled with high hopes and democratic ideals, recklessly voyaging to Russia to report on the revolution in 1905—the democratic reforms and the pogroms. By the time English died of pneumonia, alone in a hotel in Amsterdam in 1936, they were leading separate lives, he a belligerent, humorless turncoat denouncing socialism and his friends, she a torn, loyal utopian socialist with unfinished writing projects. . . .


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