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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, 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.

Based on extensive original research including unpublished police reports, memoirs, Armand's letters to her family and Lenin's letters to her ; Challenges conventional wisdom on Armand's role in Soviet society and as Lenin's mistress

Inessa Armand. Inessa Armand (1874-1920) was an active revolutionary who was very close to Lenin; she was given major roles after he assumed power. She became head of the Moscow Economic Council and served as an executive member of the Moscow Soviet.

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.

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...

"...Armand's story--now retold in Inessa Armand: Revolutionary and Feminist, by R.C. Elwood, a professor of history at Carleton University in Canada--is an interesting one, not only as an account of her own life and her connection with Lenin, but also because of the light it throws on prerevolutionary Russian society and on the origins of ...