# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-avrich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:17:03.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-avrich"
name: "Paul Avrich"
slug: "paul-avrich"
description: "Paul Avrich was an American historian specializing in the 19th and early 20th-century anarchist movement in Russia and the United States. He taught at Queens College, City University of New York, for his entire career, from 1961 to his retirement as distinguished professor of history in 1999. He wrote ten books, mostly about anarchism, including topics such as the 1886 Haymarket Riot, the 1921 Sacco and Vanzetti case, the 1921 Kronstadt naval base rebellion, and an oral history of the movement in the United States."
tagline: "American historian (1931-2006)"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1931-08-04"
deathDate: "2006-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump