Vera Broido
Vera Broido (7 September 1907 – 11 February 2004) was a Russian-born writer and a chronicler of the Russian Revolution, as one who grew up through it and lost her mother to its aftermath.
Life
Vera Broido was born in
During her time in
In 1941, Broido married British historian Norman Cohn. They had one son Nik Cohn, who went on to become a writer. When she came to the United Kingdom with her new husband, Broido carved a niche for herself among Russian emigres and went on to write books on women in revolution, the Mensheviks and her strongest work, an autobiography looking back on her childhood in Russia and her journey through Europe to the United Kingdom. After a stay in Derry in Northern Ireland, she later made her home in London and then in Wood End, Stevenage, East Hertfordshire. She died peacefully in 2004 at the age of 97 in Stevenage.
Works
- Apostles into Terrorists: Women and the Revolutionary Movement in the Russia of Alexander II. Maurice Temple Smith Ltd 1978
- Lenin and the Mensheviks: The Persecution of Socialists under Bolshevism. Westview Press, 1987.
- Daughter of the Revolution: A Russian Girlhood Remembered. Constable, 1999.
As translator & editor:
- Broido, Eva L’vovna. Memoirs of a Revolutionary. Oxford University Press, 1967.