revisiting in the revival of libertarianism following the Vietnam War and second-wave feminism. Avrich joined Queens College as a Russian history instructor in 1961, where he remained for the duration of his career, though he also was a member of the City University of New York Graduate Center faculty. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Russian history in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1972. When named distinguished professor of history in 1982, his announcement quoted him: "Every good person deep down is an anarchist." He retired in 1999. Avrich collected books, photos, and papers from key anarchists and donated a 20,000-item collection to the Library of Congress. He died on February 16, 2006, in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital from complications due to Alzheimer's disease. His Soviet research and documents on the suppressed Kronstadt insurrection led to several books on anarchists in the Russian revolution, including Kronstadt, 1921. He interviewed Soviet exiles in New York, where he first met members of the Freie Arbeiter Stimme. Avrich then moved to major figures in American anarchism, and published a book in 1980 on the Ferrer Schools inspired by Francisco Ferrer. His 1984 book on the Haymarket Riot won the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, and his 1991 book on Sacco and Vanzetti presented the pair as revolutionaries rather than philosophical anarchists. Avrich's last book, in 1995, compiled 30 years of interviews across the anarchist movement. Several of his works were nominated for Pulitzer Prizes. Works The Russian Anarchists (1967) Kronstadt, 1921 (1970) Russian Rebels, 1600–1800 (1972) The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution (1973) An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre (1978) The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States (1980) The Haymarket Tragedy (1984) Anarchist Portraits (1988) Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background (1991) Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America (1995) Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman (2012) [co-authored with his daughter, Karen Avrich] References Further reading External links Bibliography at R.A. Forum Collection at the Library of Congress Paul Avrich 1931–2006: a historian who listened to anarchist voices, in memoriam, by the Kate Sharpley Library 1931 births 2006 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers American anarchists Jewish anarchists American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Cornell University alumni Graduate Center, CUNY faculty Historians of anarchism Jewish American historians Queens College, City University