Bolshevik Women - Softcover

Clements, Barbara Evans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521599202 ISBN 13: 9780521599207

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Bolshevik Women is a history of the women who joined the Soviet Communist Party before 1921. 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, Barbara Clements tells the fascinating story of the female Reds who survived imprisonment, built bombs, led armies into battle, and struggled to survive under Stalin. The study argues that women were important members of the Communist Party during its formative years.

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Book Description:

Bolshevik Women is a history of the women who joined the Soviet Communist Party before 1921. Drawing on a data base 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 during its formative years. Barbara Clements tells the fascinating story of the female Reds who survived imprisonment, built bombs, led armies into battle, and struggled to survive under Stalin.

From the Back Cover:

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, this 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521599202
• ISBN 13: 9780521599207
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356