The author has long been based in Sweden. He first wrote his memoirs in Yiddish for an anarchist newspaper published in New York, which had been in existence since 1890. The Swedish translation was later done by Stanger. Mechel Stanger’s memoirs feature, in vivid colour, several famous figures: Rudolf Rocker, a leading anarchist theorist; Erich Mühsam, a German poet and anarchist who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp; Emma Goldman, who last appeared in the bestseller Ragtime; Voline, whose book on the “unknown revolution” in Russia is reprinted around the world; Nestor Makhno, the legendary anarchist, and many others.