Anželika Balabanova Papers

Period (1914-1938) 1939-1962
Total size   2.4 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Balabanoff, Angelica. Born in Černigov, Russia c.1878, died in Rome 1965; activist, writer, prominent member of the international socialist movement; member of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) from 1902; member of the editing board of Avanti! 1912-1914 and 1924-1935; secretary of the International Socialist Committee of the Zimmerwald Movement from 1915; secretary of the COMINTERN 1919; secretary of the International Bureau of Revolutionary-Socialist Parties (Paris Bureau) from 1925; lived in the USA during the Second World War, after 1945 returned to Italy; member of the Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani (PSLI) and the Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano (PSDI).

Content

Nearly all documents from the latter part of her life. Correspondence with Italians and other Europeans, mainly socialists, including Rafail Abramovič 1943, Diva Benetti 1952-1962, Lidija Dan 1952-1961, Jeanne Handel 1939-1962, Giuseppe Saragat 1947-1961, 1960-1962, Adolf Schärf 1953-1961; with Americans, e.g. Ella and Bertram D. Wolfe 1947, 1950-1962; with the PSDI 1952-1962 and the Sozialistische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ), Sekretariat des Frauen-Zentralkomitees 1955-1961; photocopies of four letters from Vladimir Lenin 1920;

Personal documents 1940-1962, including membership cards;

Manuscripts and drafts of autobiographical articles, e.g. `Reminiscenses' of her exile period (1922-1946) c.1946; manuscripts and drafts of her publications on Lenin, on communism, on Italian socialism and fascism; press clippings and other printed material.

Postcard from A. Balabanova to Miss K. Dietz 1951

Processing information

Inventory by Emile Schwidder in 1986