Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar - The memoirs of five young anarchist women of the 1870s
by Barbara Alpern Engel, Clifford N. Rosenthal
Category: Anarchists

"Five Sisters" provides a unique first-hand account of the Russian revolutionary movement of the 1870s from the perspective of five remarkable young women who participated in it: Vera Figner, Vera Zasulich, Olga Liubatovich, Praskovia Ivanovskaia, and Elizaveta Kovalskaia.These elegantly translated memoirs provide a vivid description of this turbulent period in Russian history and the daily lives of these brave women.