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Many early Russian feminists and ordinary Russian working women actively participated in the Revolution, and all were affected by the events of that period and the new policies of the Soviet Union. The provisional government that took power after the February 1917 overthrow of the tsar promoted liberalism and made Russia the first major country ...
Her contacts with the Russian revolutionary leader Sergei Nechaev led to her arrest and imprisonment in 1869. [ 3 ] After Zasulich was released in 1873, she settled in Kiev , where she joined the Kievan Insurgents, a revolutionary group of Mikhail Bakunin 's anarchist supporters, and became a respected leader of the movement.
Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-30438-5. Ofer, Gur; Vinokur, Aaron (1992). The Soviet Household under the Old Regime: Economic Conditions and Behaviour in the 1970. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-38398-1. Posadskaya, Anastasia (1994). Women in Russia: A New Era in Russian Feminism.
Women in the Stalin Era. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave. Lamarche-Marrese, Michelle (2002). A Woman's Kingdom: Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861. New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801439117. Pushkareva, Natalia [in Russian] (1997). Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century.
Russian opera singer Yevgeniya Mravina (stage name) was Kollontai's half-sister via her mother. The celebrated Soviet-Russian conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky, music director of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra for fifty years (1938–1988), was the only son of Mravina's brother Alexander Kostantinovich and thus Kollontai's half nephew. [8]
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Members of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death with their commander Maria Bochkareva (far right) in 1917. Women's Battalions (Russia) were all-female combat units formed after the February Revolution by the Russian Provisional Government, in a last-ditch effort to inspire the mass of war-weary soldiers to continue fighting in World War I.
Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova (Russian: Мари́я Алекса́ндровна Спиридо́нова; 16 October 1884 – 11 September 1941) was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs) , [ 1 ] she assassinated a security official.