Suffragettes in the Land of the Tsars

Jessie Kenney's Diary of Revolutionary Russia
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-7573-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Central European University Press

During Russia revolutionary year of 1917, Emmeline Pankhurst and her secretary Jessie Kenney, both well-known suffragettes, traveled to the beleaguered country to talk with Russian women about suffrage, but also to persuade Russia to remain in the war. While there, Pankhurst and Kenney met many leading figures in Russia: Felix Yusupov, the ringleader in the murder of Grigorii Rasputin; members of the Provisional Government, including its president, Alexander Kerensky; and Maria Bochkareva, the commander of the Women’s Death Battalion. They spoke with officials from the YMCA and the Red Cross and gave talks to small groups of women in private homes. Throughout, Kenney kept a diary, which she later turned into a manuscript, “The Price of Liberty.” This volume introduces Kenney’s Russian diary to a general audience, offering a new perspective on the Russian Revolution and facilitating awareness of this unique episode in the story of the British suffrage movement.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Farrow, Lee

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor’s Introduction

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Jessie Kenney’s Acknowledgments from Her Unpublished Manuscript, “The Price of Liberty”

Part One

Foreword

Introduction – Part One

Introduction – Part Two

Part Two – The Russian Diary

June

Chapter I

Chapter II

July

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

August

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

September

Chapter I

Chapter II

Goodbye to Russia

Part Three – Goodbye to Russia

on the Home Front

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Farrow, Lee
Dr. Lee A. Farrow is Distinguished Research Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at Auburn University at Montgomery and Chair of the Department of History and World Cultures. A graduate from Tulane University (1998), she has spent most of her career researching in the field of the history of Russian-American relations.