BRYANT, Louise.

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Six Red Months in Russia. First British edition. A fearless journalist and suffragist, Bryant (1885-1936) arrived in Russia in 1917 and saw the Bolsheviks as a potentially progressive force for women, pointing to the example of Alexandra Kollontai, the first woman in history to become a cabinet minister. Back in America, Bryant conducted a lengthy speaking tour to increase support for the nascent communist state."Despite the apparent emancipation of women, Bryant did not give an idyllic image of the lives of women in Russia... [She] met the members of the Women's Battalion of Death, a small unit of two thousand women trained between the February and October Revolutions in 1917 and led by Leona Botchkarova, faithful to Alexander Kerensky of the provisional government. With the October Revolution the Women's Battalion was dismantled; Bryant sympathized with these demobilised female soldiers" (Fauvrelle, p. 59).The American edition was released earlier in 1918.

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