Document Type
Podcast
Publication Date
6-5-2008
Duration
01:02:36
Journal, Book or Conference Title
New Books in History
Abstract
A number of years ago I read Robert Service's excellent biography of Lenin and came away thinking "We don't really know enough about the women who surrounded Lenin throughout his life." Katy Turton, a lecturer in modern European history at Queen's University Belfast, has fixed that. Her Forgotten Lives: The Role of Lenin's Sisters in the Russian Revolution, 1864-1937 (Palgrave, 2007) does a wonderful job of filling in the many blanks. She shows that the Lenin's sisters, as well as his wife Nadezhda Krupskaia, were not merely caretakers. Rather, they were powerful political actors in their own right. It's a terrific book.
Keywords
Intellectuals, Intelligentsia, Lenin, Politics, Radicalism, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalin, Women
Rights
Copyright © 2008 New Books In History
URL
http://ir.uiowa.edu/history_nbih/13