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How and Why Did American Women Reformers Support Russian Revolutionary Catherine Breshkovsky before 1917 and Withdraw Their Support in 1919?
(Privately Published, 2019), 2 mins
Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution in late 1917, the Russian revolutionary movement enjoyed broad support among American progressives in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The arrival of Catherine Breshkovsky, a well-educated, noble-blooded revolutionary, further solidified these ties between Russia...
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(Privately Published, 2019), 2 mins
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Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution in late 1917, the Russian revolutionary movement enjoyed broad support among American progressives in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The arrival of Catherine Breshkovsky, a well-educated, noble-blooded revolutionary, further solidified these ties between Russian and American reform in 1904. While in America, she befriended many American women, especially suffragists and settlement house worker...
Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution in late 1917, the Russian revolutionary movement enjoyed broad support among American progressives in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The arrival of Catherine Breshkovsky, a well-educated, noble-blooded revolutionary, further solidified these ties between Russian and American reform in 1904. While in America, she befriended many American women, especially suffragists and settlement house workers, who were united by their universalist ideas of human progress. These connections, however, were severely undermined by the realities of war and nationalism.
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Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Chelsea Gibson, fl. 2018
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Privately Published
Speaker / Narrator
Chelsea Gibson, fl. 2018
Person Discussed
Catherine Breshkovsky, 1844-1934
Topic / Theme
Women's rights, Social reforms, Social Reform and Political Activism, Political and Human Rights, Socialism, Suffrage, Americans, Russians
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