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The Strange Comrade Balabanoff: The Life of a Communist Rebel

The Strange Comrade Balabanoff: The Life of a Communist Rebel

LaFont, Maria

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral World HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0786498781
ISBN13: 9780786498789
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Mar 3 2016
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Born in 1878 to a wealthy Ukrainian family, Angelica Balabanoff broke ties with her parents and left for Europe to become one of the leading female socialists of the early 20th century. Just five feet tall, plump and plain, she was rumored to be a lover of Mussolini, Lenin, and Trotsky. Returning to Russia at the beginning of the October Revolution, she became one of the few women to occupy high-ranking positions within the all-male Bolshevik government, later fleeing Russia in disagreement with Lenin's politics. She was accused by European and American secret services of promoting communist propaganda, and by the Soviets of disloyalty. She lived in small dormitory-like rooms, moving on average every two years with her two suitcases of important documents.

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