Vladimir Ilich Lenin

SP 's untiring activism began in the women's movement, but unlike her mother or sister she was equally deeply committed to the struggle of the working classes. She embraced labour activism, socialism, Bolshevism, pacifism, anti-fascism...

In 1891 Edward Garnett brought home with him a Russian political exile, Felix Volkhovsky , who encouraged CG , then pregnant, to learn Russian. As a result of this friendship, she and Edward became acquainted...

During her time in Moscow she met Emma Goldman and her lover Alexander Berkman , and heard Lenin speak at the Third International Congress .

Fevvers was hatched from an egg and raised in a brothel, and sold herself into slavery to help her foster family. With the touring circus, she migrates from London to the Siberian wilderness (it turns...

Deeply involved in the political struggles among labour groups in Britain between 1917 and 1924, SP was ultimately unsuccessful in achieving her goals. At a June 1920 conference, the Workers' Socialist Federation reconstituted itself as...

Having publicly advocated a police boycott in May 1919, CCM was again arrested and sentenced to four months at Cork Jail . She kept in close contact with her sister Eva Gore-Booth , friend and...

In February of 1917 the unrest in Petrograd reached its extremest point: crowds of workers gathered to protest against food shortages. During these turbulent times, AA was staying at Valeriya Sreznevskaya 's house at a...

SP met with Lenin at a congress in Moscow, where she was persuaded to adopt more pragmatic methods, such as working with Parliament, to achieve social revolution.

She did the greater part of the archival research and interviewing that went into this work (much of it at great distances from London), since she, unlike Sidney, did not have a full-time paid job...

The work is often described as epistolary; it is written in the first person, in letters which are varied with sketches that read almost like diary entries. Through the letters and sketches of the...

RW published The Birds Fall Down, a political-historical novel which centres on a fictional version of an actual conversation on a train which had a profound effect on Russian politics before Lenin 's rise to power.

DW revised some of her poems for their appearance here from earlier versions, and again she reshuffled poems from one grouping to another, deliberately ignoring chronology and making their textual history hard to unravel. Lenin...

Apart from the diary and the translations, the poems are grouped in three groups and a closing singleton, Persephone in Arcadia (about a girl intoxicated by the promise of early spring, rushing lightly-clothed into the...

DW later wrote that Sackville-West had appeared in her London flat on a Thursday saying, Will you come to Persia on Monday?—to which she answered, Of course. They went with two other friends...

Far-flung places which have been significant for her poetry include Mexico (which she visited about the time that her marriage was breaking up). Her first visit to Russia (the Soviet Union) took in Leningrad...