num_pages: 126
description: The dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of an all-male affair. Despite the demonstrations of female workers for bread and herrings which sparked the February Revolution in the historical accounts of this momentous period women are too often relegated to the footnotes.Judy Cox argues that in fact women were central to the success of the revolution and to the development of the Bolshevik Party. With biographical sketches of famous female revolutionaries like Alexandra Kollontai and less well-known figures like Elena Stasova and Larissa Reisner The Womens Revolution tells the inspiring story of how Russian women threw off centuries of oppression to strike organise and fight for their liberation.
language: English
title: The Women's Revolution: Russia 1905 - 1917
publisher: Counterfire