One American woman's life in revolutionary Russia
- Written by Julia L. Mickenberg, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Female protesters in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) in 1917 on International Women's Day.
Wikimedia CommonsAnna Louise Strong, a journalist from Friend, Nebraska, was thrilled by what she heard about the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Although she is almost wholly unknown today, Strong was a household name in her time. She lived in the Soviet Union...
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