Bolshevik WomenCambridge University Press, 1997 M08 13 - 338 pages Bolshevik Women is a history of the women who joined the Soviet Communist Party before 1921. The book examines the reasons these women became revolutionaries, the work they did in the underground before 1917, their participation in the revolution and civil war, and their service in the building of the USSR. Drawing on a database of more than five hundred individuals as well as on intensive research into the lives of the most prominent female Bolsheviks, the study argues that women were important members of the Communist Party at its lower levels during its formative years. They were lieutenants, printing leaflets, speaking to crowds, and running party operations in the cities. They also created one of the most remarkable efforts to emancipate women from traditional society of the twentieth century. This book traces their fascinating lives from the earliest years of the revolutionary movement through to their old age in the time of Khrushchev and Brezhnev. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alexandra Alexandra Kollontai argued arrested Artiukhina became Bolshe Bolshevik feminists Bosh Bosh's Bukharin Central Committee Cheka Civil war joiners collective identity Communist Party comrades Congress daughter department head Elena Stasova Evgeniia exile female feminism feminists gender guberniia husband Iakovleva Ibid Inessa Armand intelligentsia istorii joined the party Katorga Kiev Kollontai Kommunistka Konkordiia Kovnator KPSS Krupskaia labor leaders leadership Lenin Leningrad liberation lives Marxist memoirs Mensheviks military Moscow movement Narkompros office-holding Okhrana Old Bolshevichki Old Bolsheviks participation particularly party committee party office party's peasant percent Perepiska Petersburg Petrograd Piatakov police political Pravda prerevolutionary prison proletarian Proletarskaia revoliutsiia Purges Rabotnitsa radical raion Red Army regime revoliutsii revolution revolutionary Rozmirovich RSDRP RTsKhIDNI Russian Social Samoilova secretary Smidovich Social Democrats Social origins socialist society soldiers Soviet Union Stalin Trotsky tverdost Ukraine underground vichki Vidali Vospominaniia woman women working-class wrote Zemliachka Zhenotdel Zhenshchiny
Popular passages
Page 6 - Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 (New York...