Forgotten Lives
Subtitle: The Role of Lenin's Sisters in the Russian Revolution, 1864-1937
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780230007628
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; Revolutions & coups; Revolutions; Russia - History; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Historical - General; Women; History / Soviet Union; Soviet Union; Biography; Communists; Revolutionaries
Description: Forgotten Lives explores the lives and work of Lenin's sisters--Anna, Ol'ga and Mariia--and the role they played in the Russian Revolution. It traces their early revolutionary careers and contributions to the underground movement, their work for the Party and the State after October 1917, and their relationship with Lenin and Stalin. The portrayal of the sisters in Soviet and English-language histories is also discussed, with a view to restoring these largely forgotten lives to the history of the revolution.