# Endnotes explained — My Disillusionment in Russia

> Chapter companion for My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman.

## What happens

This chapter contains the endnotes for the book, providing translations and explanations of foreign terms, historical references, and contextual clarifications for terms used throughout the narrative.

## Character check-ins

### Alexander Berkman

Referenced in endnote regarding trial and speeches.

### Emma Goldman

Referenced in endnote regarding trial and speeches.

## Key lines

> Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman Before the Federal Court of New York, June-July, 1917

The legal proceedings and public addresses of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman in a New York federal court during the summer of 1917.

_Historical reference to the trial of two prominent anarchists._

> Happy villagers and their model homes, specially prepared and shown to Catherine the Great by her Prime Minister Potemkin to deceive her about the true condition of the peasantry.

Fake prosperous villages built to impress Catherine the Great, hiding the actual poverty of the peasants.

_Explanation of the term 'Potemkin village' as a metaphor for deceptive appearances._

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