Inessa Armand (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521414869)

Inessa Armand was born of French-English parents in Paris in 1874, raised in the family of a wealthy Moscovite manufacturer, and buried at the age of 46 next to the walls of the Kremlin. In this biography, Professor R. C. Ellwood explores her relatively short life as a Tolstoyan, a lady philanthropist interested in rehabilitating prostitutes, an underground propagandist arrested five times by the tsarist police, an important Bolshevik organizer in Western Europe before the revolution, and a leading Soviet feminist from 1917 to 1920. Armand's unique life is made even more interesting by her close friendship with Lenin and this study examines their stormy relations, casting doubt on the conventional wisdom of an extended love affair.

Author: Ralph Carter Elwood,R. C. Elwood
ISBN-10: 0521414865
ISBN-13: 9780521414869
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/26/1992
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.28w x 0.93d