Barbara Clements. Bolshevik Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv, 338. Illustrations. Figures. Tables. Select Bibliography. Index. $64.95, cloth. $24.95, paper.
This is a welcome and necessary addition to the small body of literature on female Bolshevik revolutionaries. The number of full-fledged biographies published in English is limited: three on Kollontai; one on Krupskaia; and one on Armand.1 Rather than focusing on one or several subjects, Clements's most recent effort is a collective biography of Bolshevik women that draws on a data base containing 545 records. The narrative of this work, which is of necessity numerically based and rife with tables and …
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