In her eminently readable memoirs, Cecilia Bobrovskaya describes her life as an underground revolutionary in Tsarist Russia, a country ruled by the autocratic Tsar, the capitalists, and large landlords. Bobrovskaya takes the reader through a heroic saga that spans her work in the early years of Lenin’s Bolshevik Party, through the Revolution of 1905 (the “dress rehearsal for 1917”), right until the eve of the first imperialist World War. Bobrovskaya’s eloquent, conversational, and gripping descriptive power bring to life vivid scenes of unmatched courage in the face of great danger, privation, imprisonment, and exile. These memoirs paint the picture of a model proletarian revolutionary, a true rank-and-file Bolshevik.
ISBN: 978-1-300-40943-4