 Goldman and Berkman entrusted Louise Berger, (according to Goldman, one of "our closest and most dependable friends") with a copy of the manifesto to take with her on her journey to Russia.Berger sailed from New York in August 1917 bound for Russia, along with journalist John Reed and several other prominent radicals.On the voyage out she met another returnee, Senya Fleshin, and became his lover.