Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution, The.
Blackwell, Alice Stone, ed. (Breshkovsky, Catharine). The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution. Reminiscences and Letters of Catherine Breshkovsky. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1919.
Small 8vo.; frontispiece photograph of Breshkovsky; tan cloth, stamped in black; black and white photographic dust-jacket; edges tattered.
“New popular edition” of Breshkovsky’s story of a woman’s struggle against political oppression for independence, edited by Blackwell; a lovely copy, signed in ink on the frontispiece by Breshkovsky beneath her portrait and just below her facsimile signature.
An English translation from the Yiddish account first published in the Jewish Daily Forward. Blackwell’s preface explains, “Madame Breshkovsky, while in New York, gave Doctor Abraham Cahan an account of her childhood and youth. He wrote out her reminiscences and published them in his paper, the Jewish Daily Forward, running from October 23, 1904, to January 18, 1905...” Breshkovsky’s “reminiscences” include her childhood in Russia, her arrests, prison experiences, exile to Siberia, and escape.
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