Feminism from Biblionne

Translation by A. Radlova. Preface by K. Derzhavin. Afterword by M. Morozov. One of 10 000 copies published. Signed and inscribed by the translator: "Dorogoi moei Sarushke / ot Annushki. / 20-X-37" [To my dear Sarushka from Annushka. October 20, 1937]. First edition of this translation. Anna Radlova (1891–1949), a poet, literary salon-holder, and wife of Sergei Radlov, the theatre director, prepared the translation of… Read more about this item

First and only edition. Second Kollontai's book. This book by 'Communist Valkyrie', a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat, and Marxist theoretician Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was published in the year of the First Russian Revolution. It was banned and confiscated by the czarist police Kollontai herself was exiled from Russia in 1908. Kollontai did not identify as a feminist. She understood "feminism" as… Read more about this item

Second edition of 'Natasha Rostova's book'. The writer Tatiana Kuzminskaia (nee Bers 1846-1925) was younger sister of Sophia Bers who became the wife of Leo Tolstoy. Tatiana was very close with Tolstoy her whole life. She was one of the main prototypes for Natasha Rostova in Tolstoy's War and Peace and for now she is best known for her reminiscences about… Read more about this item

Second edition. The book includes memories and autobiographical stories of women who participated in the Russian Civil War in North Caucasus and Ukraine in 1917-1920. It was compared by the researchers who prepared the well-known Soviet edition the History of the Civil War in the USSR (5 vol., 1942-1960). OCLC locates five copies of this edition: in the Harvard Library,… Read more about this item

Limited to 5 000 copies. This list was prepared by the Research Institute of Librarianship and Recommended Bibliography of People's Commissariat for Education. It includes fiction and nonfiction books about women in Tsar Russia and their role in October Revolution and Socialism construction, books about Female Stakhanovites, about the women's situation in the Soviet Republics and abroad, about parenting and Bolshevik… Read more about this item

First Russian edition. Lily Braun (1865-1916), a German feminist writer and politician of the Social Democratic Party. She wrote about the exploitation of female labor under various economic systems, the necessity of insurance, the politics of women's rights in different parties, and responsibilities of women in the political struggle. The book was translated from the German edition Die Frauen und die… Read more about this item

The book is devoted to the most influential and important women in the world history of warfare and their deeds: the Amazons, Deborah (prophetess of the God of the Israelites), Olga of Kiev (regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav), Joanna of Flanders (Duchess of Brittany), Joan of Arc, Alena Arzamasskaia (the Russian Joan of Arc, who fought in… Read more about this item

This book was prepared by Aleksandra Bogat (1898-?), the Cavalry Maiden and the head of intelligence of the 21st Cavalry Regiment in the 1st Cavalry Army (also known as "Budyonny's Cavalry Amy"). Unfortunately, we do not know anything about the author's later life, except that she wrote several feminist brochures and books. For the first time, Russian women were allowed… Read more about this item

Unique archive concerning Soviet female military aviator with original pilot's flying logbook. This is an archive of a senior lieutenant Galina Burdina-Ermak (1919-after 2007?), who served at the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment, one of the three Soviet women's aviation regiments founded by Marina Raskova at the start of the … Read more about this item