Revolutionary women in Russia, 1870-1917 : a prosopographical study
The aim of this prosopographical study of female revolutionaries in Russia was to examine the part played by women at different stages in the revolutionary process and their individual life cycles. The starting-point is 1870 because it was in that decade that the revolutionary movement reached mass proportions. The study stops at the end of 1917 when the Bolshevik party seized power and brought to an end the revolutionary activities of most former activists. In the course of the research a biographical database for 1,200 women has been compiled which was analysed to establish patterns among female revolutionaries and to identify factors which united or divided them. Most of the data for the study was acquired from primary sources such as autobiographies and biographies, memoirs, document collections. Some of the best autobiographical material came from Moscow archives: Rossisiskii tsentr khraneniia i izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii (RTsKhlDNI), Gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv Moskovskoi oblasti and Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Okriabr'skoi revoliutsii i sotsialisticheskogo stroitePstva Moskvy (TsGAORSSM). Finally, two biographical dictionaries/encyclopaedias were of special significance
Hillyar, Anna
B Philosophy (General)
Revolutionary women in Russia, 1870-1917 : a prosopographical study. The aim of this prosopographical study of female revolutionaries in Russia was to examine the part played by women at different stages in the revolutionary process and their individual life cycles. The starting-point is 1870 because it was in that decade that the revolutionary movement reached mass proportions. The study stops at the end of 1917 when the Bolshevik party seized power and brought to an end the revolutionary activities of most former activists. In the course of the research a biographical database for 1,200 women has been compiled which was analysed to establish patterns among female revolutionaries and to identify factors which united or divided them. Most of the data for the study was acquired from primary sources such as autobiographies and biographies, memoirs, document collections. Some of the best autobiographical material came from Moscow archives: Rossisiskii tsentr khraneniia i izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii (RTsKhlDNI), Gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv Moskovskoi oblasti and Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Okriabr'skoi revoliutsii i sotsialisticheskogo stroitePstva Moskvy (TsGAORSSM). Finally, two biographical dictionaries/encyclopaedias were of special significance
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