Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia miscellaneous papers, 1919-1931

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Summary

Creators:
Breshko-BreshkovskaiĶ”a, Ekaterina Konstantinovna, 1844-1934, Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich, 1881-1970, and Dietrich, Irene
Abstract:
Writings, correspondence, biographical data, and photographs, relating to the life of E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia. Includes drafts of the book by E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia, The Hidden Springs of the Russian Revolution (Stanford University Press, 1931); a biographical sketch of E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia by Aleksandr Kerenskii; and three letters by E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia.
Extent:
3 manuscript boxes, 5 envelopes (1.7 Linear Feet)
Language:
In Russian and English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia Miscellaneous papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Biographical / historical:
Date Event
1844, January 13
Born, Vitebsk, Russia
1873
Began revolutionary activity
1874
Joined the Chaikovskii "To the People" Movement in St. Petersburg. Arrested and sentenced to five years of hard labor
1879
Exiled to Siberia
1896
Returned and was active in the Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Received permission to return to European Russia.
1903
Participated in the International Socialist Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1903-1905
Travelled abroad
1905
Illegally returned to Russia
1908
Arrested and sentenced to lifetime exile in Siberia
1917
Freed from exile by the February Revolution
1921
Left Russia to live in emigration
1931
Author, Hidden Springs of the Russian Revolution
1934, September 12
Died, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1978.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia Miscellaneous papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
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