page_title: Angela Davis
section_title: Soviet Union
hierarchical_section_title: Angela Davis / Other activities in the 1970s / Soviet Union
caption_attribution_description: English: “Valentina Tereshkova and Angela Davis”. Chairwoman of the Soviet Women's Committee Valentina Tereshkova handing a memento to member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States Angela Davis, and Kendra Alexander (right). Русский: «Валентина Терешкова и Анджела Дэвис». Председатель Комитета советских женщин Валентина Владимировна Терешкова вручает памятный подарок члену ЦК Комунистической партии США Анджеле Дэвис. Россия, Москва
context_page_description: Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ideologically a Marxist, Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA and is a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She is the author of over ten books on class, feminism, and the U.S. prison system.
  Born to an African American family in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied French at Brandeis University and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in West Germany. Studying under the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, a prominent figure in the Frankfurt School, Davis became increasingly engaged in far-left politics. Returning to the United States, she studied at the University of California, San Diego before moving to East Germany, where she completed a doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin. After returning to the United States, she joined the Communist Party and became involved in numerous causes, including the second-wave feminist movement, the Black Panther Party, and the campaign against the Vietnam War.
context_section_description: In 1971 the CIA estimated that five percent of Soviet propaganda efforts were directed towards the Angela Davis campaign. In August 1972, Davis visited the USSR at the invitation of the Central Committee, and received an honorary doctorate from Moscow State University.
  On May 1, 1979, she was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union. She visited Moscow later that month to accept the prize, where she praised "the glorious name" of Lenin and the "great October Revolution".
caption: Davis and Valentina Tereshkova, 1972
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