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The Russian revolutionary leader, Vladimir Lenin, loved two women: his spouse Nadezhda Krupskaya, and the French-Russian communist, Inessa Armand. Despite the rivalry between the two women, all...

Armand, Inessa (1874–1920) Russian revolutionary and feminist who was active as an underground propagandist, Bolshevik Party organizer, and champion of women's equality in the early Soviet state. Name variations: Comrade Inessa, Elena Blonina. Pronunciation: In-es-a Ar-mand.

Inessa Armand. Inessa Armand, the daughter of a comedian and singer, was born in Paris on 8th May, 1874. Her mother was a musician who gave singing and piano lessons. Inessa's father died when she was only five and she was brought up by an aunt living in Moscow.

ARMAND, INESSA. (1874 – 1920), n é e Elisabeth Stefan, revolutionary and feminist, first head of the zhenotdel, the women's section of the Communist Party. Born in France, Inessa Armand came to Russia as a child when her parents died and her aunt took a job as governess in the wealthy Armand merchant family.

Inessa Armand was the first Director of the Women's Section of the Russian Communist Party (the Zhenotdel). She was one of the most important women in the pre-revolutionary Bolshevik Party and second only to Alexandra Kollontai in the ranks of early Soviet feminists.

Inessa Armand (1874-1920) was a pioneering socialist feminist who played a key role in promoting the emancipation of women in the international socialist movement, and after the Russian revolution. She was born in a working-class district in the north of Paris on 8 May 1874.

January 9, 2020 by Julie. Inessa Armand was a French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and feminist. She was an important figure in pre-Revolution Russian communist movement and was the Director of the Zhenotdel or “Women’s Department” which worked to improve the conditions of women’s lives in the Soviet Union ...