1. Lion Feuchtwanger, Moscow 1937: My Visit Described for My Friends, trans. Irene Josephy (London: Left Book Club/Victor Gollancz 1937), p. 27–28. This book was commissioned to counter the disastrous effect produced by the publication of André Gide’s Return from the USSR. 2. This function of collective representations as effecting the incorporation by individuals of the divisions of the social world is discussed in Roger Chartier, Au bord de la falaise. L’histoire entre certitudes et inquiétude (Paris: Albin Michel, 1998), p. 12.
2. Dora Russell, The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love (London: Virago, 1977), p. 94. The biography of Alexandra Kollontai has been well researched: On her life during the utopian phase of Soviet communism see Barbara Evans Clements, Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Aleksandra Kollontai (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979) and Beatrice Farnsworth, Aleksandra Kollontai: Socialism, Feminism, and the Bolshevik Revolution (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1980); for her later years, Beatrice Farnsworth, ‘Conversing with Stalin, Surviving the Terror: The Diaries of Aleksandra Kollontai and the Internal Life of Politics’, Slavic Review 69:4 (Winter 2010), pp. 944–970. See also Cathy Porter, Alexandra Kollontai: A Biography (Pontypool: Merlin Press, 2013).
3. For a more detailed presentation of developments in the legal and social status of women in the Soviet Union, see Wendy Goldman, Women, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917–1936 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
4. Madeleine Pelletier, Mon voyage aventureux en Russie Communiste [1922] (Paris: Indigo & Côté-femmes éditions, 1996), pp. 94–95.
5. Barbara Evans Clements, Bolshevik Women (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 137.