Bolshevik Women (Paperback)

Barbara Evans Professor Clements
Cambridge University Press
 9780521599207
0-521-59920-2

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.

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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.