La 4e de couverture indique : "Sait-on que la première femme ministre au monde était une bolchevique ? Le 23 janvier 1917, à Petrograd, une grève spontanée d'ouvrières du textile entraîne les métallos voisins et les partis révolutionnaires réticents, et débouche sur l'abdication…
""Ruthchild argues that the women's movement in Russia, with its insistence on women's citizenship and suffrage, was integral to democratization efforts in Imperial Russia, and especially to the revolutions of 1917. Her book is deeply researched, carefully crafted, and beautiful…
On July 20, 1917, Russia became the first major power to grant women the right to vote and hold public office. But after the October Revolution and the establishment of the Soviet Union, those who had pioneered the suffragist cause were all but erased from accounts of Russian hi…