Spanning the years from the foundation of the Soviet state in 1918 to the collapse of Perestroika, this book explores how the wives of the USSR's leaders lived, worked, bore children, fell in love and shot themselves. From Lenin's faithful partner Nadezhda Krupskaya, through the beautiful, free-loving Alexandra Kollontai, Stalin's terrified 17-year-old bride Nadezhda Alliluyeva, the wives of Kruschev and Andropov, finally to "modern" Raisa Gorbachev, we see the powerbroking of Soviet history revealed from a fresh and ...
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Spanning the years from the foundation of the Soviet state in 1918 to the collapse of Perestroika, this book explores how the wives of the USSR's leaders lived, worked, bore children, fell in love and shot themselves. From Lenin's faithful partner Nadezhda Krupskaya, through the beautiful, free-loving Alexandra Kollontai, Stalin's terrified 17-year-old bride Nadezhda Alliluyeva, the wives of Kruschev and Andropov, finally to "modern" Raisa Gorbachev, we see the powerbroking of Soviet history revealed from a fresh and fascinating perspective.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Text in English, Russian. xii, 241p., [16]p. of plates: ill., ports.; 25 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits. Bibliography: p227-232. -Includes index.
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As New in As New jacket. 241 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. The First Generation Of Kremln Wives Included Bolshevik Commissars And 'new Women' Free Loving Larissa Reisner And Lenins Saintly Wife Nadezhda Krupskaya.