Sophia Bobrovskaya Research Paper

Sophia Bobrovskaya

Sophia Bobrovskaya was a Bolshevik Rank and File. Born in 1876 in a small Russian town on the outskirts of Moscow. Bobrovskaya was a daughter of a small shoe maker who produced more shoes than customers. In Bobrovskaya’s small town there was no high school, she dreamed of receiving a further education, she read Russian literature by Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, and Tolstoy, Pisarev, and many other Great Russian authors and poets. Bobrovskaya decided to move to Moscow to go to school. Where she couldn’t find a job and was deeply disgusted with the conditions of factories at the time. This led her to join a local secret revolutionary group where she continued to her secret work before the November revolution which would change everything,

Before the November revolution I spent

This had created an opposition among us fellow Bolsheviks. Lenin did not trust the masses to make a revolution he felt they were only capable of a trade union consciousness. He had favoured a dictatorship of the Bolshevik party over the working class. He had begun to not trust us rank and files of the Bolshevik party workers. Lenin had begun to get his ideas out with a newspaper called Pravda, I personally enjoyed reading his paper and it had become at once in his hands a powerful instrument to overthrow of bourgeois society. Talk about overthrowing provisional government was spreading and Bolshevism was getting more intense. In the earlier days of July coalition with the bourgeois was pursued by the socialists Allies forced the Russian Army to a hopeless attack, which led to an armed demonstration in Petrograd. On July 5th the counter-revolutionary secret service published forged documents to prove that Lenin was acting under the orders of a German general