Inessa armand biography of william
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Inessa Armand: Revolutionary and Feminist , , ,
Table of contents :
Introduction
1. In the nest of gentlefolk --
2. From feminism to Marxism --
3. Underground propagandist --
4. Years of kringirrande --
5. Building a &#;party of new type&#; --
6. In defence of women workers --
7. Lenin&#;s &#;girl friday&#; --
8. The end of an affair? --
9. On the eve of revolution --
Return to Moscow --
French fiasco --
Soviet feminism --
Death in the Caucasus.
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Inessa Armand was the first Director of the Women's Section of the Russian Communist Party (the Zhenotdel). She was one of the most important women in the pre-revolutionary Bolshevik Party, and second only to Aleksandra Kollontai in the ranks of early Soviet feminists. Yet if Armand is mentioned at all in Western literature, it is solely as Lenin's protegee and probable mistress. In this political biography of Armand, the first to appear in English, Professor R. C. Elwood seeks to correct this picture by portra
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Arrondissement 5
Numbers: 2, 10, , 54, , , , , , , , ,
One of Paris&#; oldest streets the road was the main north-south route through Paris beneath the Romans, who paved it and widened it (to half its present 20 metre width).
Use of St Jacques in the road&#;s name dates from the founding of a kloster of Dominican &#;brother preachers&#; with a Saint-Jacques chapel. The location of the Jacobin brothers&#; kloster was approximately around No. It was closed in and its building gradually demolished over the first half ot the 19th century. In the early 17th century a second monastery for &#;reformed Jacobins&#; was built on the Rue Saint-Honoré.
The road was definitively named the Rue Saint-Jacques in and variously widened and extended out to the Boulevard de Port Royal in the s and s.
No. 2 used to stand with other houses and shops in front of the Saint-Sevérin church was finally pulled down in for the last road-widening.
But on June 23 workers resisting the closure o
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‘Vistas of the Revolution in France’ by Helena Blonina (Inessa Armand) from Communist International. No. 3. July,
French-Russian revolutionary Marxist, formidable, leading, and independent Bolshevik Inessa Armand enjoyed Lenin&#;s absolute confidence, even as she vociferously supported the Workers Opposition. A prolific writers whose works badly need collecting and translation, Armand, here writing as Helena Blonina, and flush with revolutionary possibilities reports on the chaotic and inspiring events in France during the first year of &#;peace&#; with this essay for the Communist International.
‘Vistas of the Revolution in France’ by Helena Blonina (Inessa Armand) from Communist International. No. 3. July,
A year ago the revolutionary movement in France already assumed such considerable dimensions that the country was on the eve of a revolutionary outbreak. In the spring of , mutinies occurred in many regiments, and, bore such a decided character that there was a mome