Breshkovsky (Catherine) The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution, fifth reprint, signed by the author on frontispiece (some show-through on tissue guard), ink ownership signature on front free endpaper, original cloth, slight ink marks to joints, spine ends and corner tips rubbed and frayed, 8vo, Boston, 1919.
⁂ Catherine Breshkovsky (1844-1934), a major figure in the Russian socialist movement. She was one of the founders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and she is widely considered to be Russia's first female political prisoner, spending over four decades in prison and Siberian exile for peaceful opposition to Tsarism. Also popularly known as "babushka", Breshkovsky has been descibred as the "grandmother of the Russian Revolution".
Material signed by Breshkovsky is rare.
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