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Inessa Fyodorovna Armand was a French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and a feminist who spent most of her life in Russia.
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politics · French communist politician (1874–1920) · revolutionary · editor · politician · communist · feminist · also Inessa Armand, Inessa Fedorovna, Inessa Fyodorovna Armand, Inessa-Elizaveta Armand, Elena Blonina, Armand
Born 8 May 1874 · Died 24 September 1920 · Q233514
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“Nothing is accomplished...by using rude words,”
Green Left Weekly: Inessa Armand:
Western scholarship has focused so much on it that her achievements as a revolutionist and a feminist are usually obscured
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“Some Repetitions on the Times”
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Was commemorated as a "senior and dedicated Bolshevik" and as "a close friend and aide of Lenin", but by the 1930s her work had been forgotten
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By Alexandra Kollontai, who knew both Lenin and Armand
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Died 1920-09-24.
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“Opis: na jednym z wieńców złożonym po pogrzebie Inessy Armand.”
With Sverdlov's assistance against opposition from Zinoviev and Radek, she succeeded in getting a national congress of working women held, with Lenin as a speaker
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Armand became secretary for the Committee of Foreign Organisations established to coordinate all Bolshevik groups in Western Europe
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Joined the illegal Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
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Left her husband, with whom she had an open marriage, to marry his younger brother Vladimir, who shared her radical political views, and bore him her fifth child, Andrei
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Born 1874-05-08.
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