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Ethel Snowden (1881–1951)

Autor/a de The Feminist Movement

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Crèdit de la imatge: Image from A political pilgrim in Europe (1921) by Ethel Snowden

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The Feminist Movement (2017) 2 exemplars
Through Bolshevik Russia (2009) 2 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1881-09-08
Data de defunció
1951-02-22
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
UK
Lloc de naixement
Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Llocs de residència
London, England, UK
Educació
Edge Hill College, Liverpool
Professions
politician
teacher
aristocrat
lecturer
pacifist
women's suffrage leader (mostra-les totes 7)
feminist
Relacions
Snowden, Philip (husband)
Organitzacions
Fabian Society
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
Independent Labour Party
Biografia breu
Ethel, Viscountess Snowden, née Annakin, was born in Pannal, near Harrogate in Yorkshire, England, the daughter of a nonconformist building contractor who later served as mayor of Harrogate. She trained as a teacher at Edge Hill College in Liverpool, and did social work in the slums of the city. She also became a socialist and joined the Fabian Society. In 1905, she married Philip Snowden, an aspiring Labour candidate for Parliament. Ethel became an outspoken public speaker, and a leading feminist and campaigner for women's suffrage. She also founded the Women’s Peace Crusade to oppose World War I. She helped her husband become a successful politician who rose to become Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924. She became Viscountess Snowden when he received a peerage in 1931. She wrote The Woman Socialist (1907) and The Feminist Movement (1913). Among her pamphlets were Women and the State (1907) and British Standards of Child Welfare (1926).
Following a trip to Russia, she wrote Through Bolshevik Russia (1920) that was highly critical of Lenin and the Bolshevik government. In 1926, she was named to a term as a member of the BBC Board of Governors.

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I first learned of this book because Ethel Snowden was one of the European socialist and labour leaders who visited independent Georgia in 1920. Georgia was at that time ruled by the Mensheviks, democratic socialists who rejected the dictatorial rule of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. In her account of that visit, she contrasted the happy, well-fed Georgians with the people she'd met during her earlier visit to Russia, which is the subject of this book. Published in September 1920 while she was in Georgia, this book offers a surprisingly balanced and nuanced view of the Bolsheviks in power. Snowden was no fan of the Bolsheviks, and is furious at the "Extraordinary Commission", the organisation that later became famous as the Cheka, the GPU, NKVD, KGB, and so on. But she meets many decent Bolsheviks, committed to making the revolution work. She is a strong opponent of the British blockade and British support for the White armies of Denikin and Kolchak. Oddly, she doesn't mention Georgia even once, though she encounters Russian Mensheviks. By this time, the Mensheviks, who enjoy a kind of semi-legality before the Bolsheviks finally outlaw them, are winning election after election in the local Soviets. But it is not to last. The book is very clearly written, and Snowden fully understands the unfolding tragedy in Russia. A forgotten gem.… (més)
 
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ericlee | Mar 7, 2018 |

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