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1st ed. |
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xvi, 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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| Note |
Originally published: London : Duckworth, 2001. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index. |
| Summary |
Chronicles the life of political revolutionary Inessa Armand, who, in addition to being Lenin's mistress, worked as an organizer of the Bolshevik party, and identifies her role during World War I and in the shaping of Russian history. |
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"From the acclaimed author of The Sealed Train and Those Damned Rebels comes the definitive biography of Inessa Armand: revolutionary, tactician, and confidante and mistress of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Although she is little known today, after the October Revolution in 1917, Armand became the most powerful woman in Moscow. The illegitimate daughter of a Parisian opera singer, Armand was fortunate to marry into a wealthy Moscow family, yet she left home after ten years and four children to live openly with her husband's much younger brother, through whom she became deeply embroiled in Russia's growing anti-tsarist underworld. By the time she met Lenin in Paris, Armand had been imprisoned four times and had escaped Arctic exile, making her a fugitive in her homeland. Lenin soon recognized her talents, and Armand became his lieutenant, organizer, and lover. Through seven years of exile, she helped Lenin hone the Bolshevik Party, despite bitter internal strife, into the disciplined unit that would gain him immense power. Following the February Revolution in 1917, Armand supported Lenin in his greatest gamble: She accompanied him from their latest exile in Switzerland through Germany--still at war with Russia--to St. Petersburg via the legendary "sealed train." It was a journey that would shape the twentieth century." -- Amazon.com |
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Armand, I. F. (Inessa Fedorovna), 1874-1920.
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Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 1870-1924 -- Relations with women.
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Armand, I. F. (Inessa Fedorovna), 1874-1920. (OCoLC)fst00180119
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Lenin, Vladimir Ilich, 1870-1924. (OCoLC)fst00055663
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Armand, Inessa.
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Women communists -- Europe -- Biography.
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Women communists -- Russia -- Biography.
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Russia -- Politics and government -- 1894-1917.
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Relations with women. (OCoLC)fst01354410
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Women communists. (OCoLC)fst01177508
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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Russia. (OCoLC)fst01207312
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| Chronological Term |
1894-1917
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
037550589X (alk. paper) |
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9780375505898 (alk. paper) |
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