Preface With joy and envy I read the lives of those great women of the past--the \"Moscow Amazons\" of the ties, seventies, and eighties who helped assassinate t \"P6troleuses\" who mounted the barricades of Paris l Commune, and all the other brave, single-minded devoted .their lives to the revolution: Rosa Luxerc Goldma~ Louise Michel, La Pasionafia. Their/!Jives are so direct, their stories high drama with the s[~tions of their birth, skip quickly to the cr of childhood--the one riveting moment when the ~, unspeakable cruelty or the touching kindness of a co (an aunt, a teacher)awakens them from their slur cence to pose their destiny. They brood, then plung~ reading the book that will change their lives by its stl tions or wrestling with the idea that will launch the implacable commitment. Nothing will keep them nc ing the provinces for St. Petersburg, for Zurich, Paris, where \"the new ideas fill the air.\" Studying 1 university or philosophy in a workers study group, th every night, sometimes till dawn, passionately deba ideas with their \"little circle\" or reading the forbidd pass secretly, from hand to hand, until at last they t~ cable step by which they merge their lives with t \"comrades\" in \"the Great Cause\" of \"our genera1 times they speak of love, but men are by no means element in their lives.) Long before they die, which pared to do at any time, each one knows the very wo to pass on to the future: Sofia Bardina: \"Persecute us--you have material while, gentlemen, butwe have moral strength, tll ideas; and ideas, alas, you cannot pierce with bayor
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