Boris souvarine papers - soviet russia photos
graduateinstitute. Ch/home/research/library/archives/boris. . Notes: the back of the document holds the mention (in russian and french): "the delegates to the iind congress of the iiird international, at pavlovsk. In the middle of the group, comrade lilina. On her left, mutzenberg". Zlata (or zinaida) ionova lilina (1881-1929) was grigori zinoviev's wife. Involved in children care and education, she was people's commissar for social planning to the northern commun (organ of the petrograd soviet). Victor serge (1890-1947) described her as "a small crop-haired, grey-eyed woman (. . ) sprightly and tough". She stands in the middle of the group, with german delegate willi münzenberg (1889-1940) on her left. The man with a hat and a pipe may be karl radek (1885-1939). The man on the left, behind the woman in a white dress, may be manabendra nath roy (1887-1954), delegate to mexico, commissioned by lenin to write the theses on national and colonial questions during the iind congress. Unknown photographer. Description: 1 photograph. Black and white; 13 x 17. 5 cm. Sources and further reading:
fayet, jean-françois. 2004. Karl radek (1885-1939): biographie politique. Bern: p. Lang. Lazic, branko m. , and milorad m. Drachkovitch. 1973. Biographical dictionary of the comintern. Stanford, calif: hoover institution press. Serge, victor. 1963. Memoirs of a revolutionary. London, new york: oxford university press. Re-ed. 2012. (chapter 3, "anguish and enthusiasm, 1919-1920"). Wood, elizabeth a. 1997. The baba and the comrade. Gender and politics in the revolutionary russia. Bloomington: indiana university press.
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