Five Sisters: Women Against The Tsar

Five Sisters: Women Against The Tsar

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Condition: Good. Jacket: in good condition with minor wear on edges and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings.

Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar presents the extraordinary memoirs of five young anarchist women who risked everything to challenge Imperial Russia in the turbulent 1870s. Edited and translated from the Russian for the first time by Barbara Alpern Engel and Clifford N. Rosenthal, with an introduction by Alix Kates Shulman, this landmark collection gives an unfiltered voice to women who have long been overlooked by mainstream historical narratives. The accounts chronicle lives of underground activism, sacrifice, imprisonment, and unwavering conviction, painting a vivid portrait of radical feminism and political dissent in Tsarist Russia. With an urgent and deeply personal tone, these testimonies illuminate the intersection of gender, revolution, and power in one of history's most turbulent empires.

Author: Barbara Alpern Engel And Clifford N. Rosenthal
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Genre: Biography

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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: in good condition with minor wear on edges and corners. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings.

Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar presents the extraordinary memoirs of five young anarchist women who risked everything to challenge Imperial Russia in the turbulent 1870s. Edited and translated from the Russian for the first time by Barbara Alpern Engel and Clifford N. Rosenthal, with an introduction by Alix Kates Shulman, this landmark collection gives an unfiltered voice to women who have long been overlooked by mainstream historical narratives. The accounts chronicle lives of underground activism, sacrifice, imprisonment, and unwavering conviction, painting a vivid portrait of radical feminism and political dissent in Tsarist Russia. With an urgent and deeply personal tone, these testimonies illuminate the intersection of gender, revolution, and power in one of history's most turbulent empires.