Invisible Architects of the Barricades

This book investigates how women shaped the course of revolutions that routinely erase their names, tracing the lives of women who helped draft manifestos, march on palaces, and organize the streets from the French Revolution to the Russian upheavals of 1905 and 1917. It follows salon hostesses, pamphleteers, rioters, and Bolshevik women cadres who turned bread riots into political insurrections, ...