Inessa armand biography of abraham lincoln
Inessa Armand, the daughter of a comedian and singer, was born in Paris on 8th May, Her mother was a musician who gave singing and piano lessons....
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Inessa Armand, the daughter of an actor, was born in Paris on 8th May, 1874.
Her father died when she was only five and she was brought up by an aunt living in Moscow.
At the age of nineteen she married Alexander Armand and together they opened a school for peasant children. She also joined a charitable group helping destitute women in Moscow.
When the authorities refused her permission to establish a Sunday School for working women, Armand began to question what social reformers could achieve in Russia.
“If women's liberation is unthinkable without communism, then communism is unthinkable without women's liberation.”1 —Russian revolutionary Inessa Armand.
In 1903 she joined the illegal Social Democratic Labour Party. Armand distributed illegal propaganda and after being arrested in June, 1907, she was sentenced to two years internal exile in Siberia.
On her release Armand left Russia and settled in Paris where she met Vladimir Lenin and other Bolsheviks living in exile.
In 1911 Armand became secretary for the Committee of Foreign Organizations established to coordinate all Bolshevik groups in Western Eur