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Bolsheviks in the underground: Cecilia Bobrovskaya and other rebels

Marxism 2017

Cecilia Samoylovna Bobrovskaya was an early Bolshevik activist, revolutionary, and memoirist. She played a notable role in various local organizations of the Bolshevik party – consequently facing repeated persecution by the authorities of the Russian Empire. Bobrovskaya is best known for her memoirs, Twenty Years in Underground Russia: Memoirs of a Rank-and-File Bolshevik (1934). This talk will uncover the life of this wonderful radical.