During Russia revolutionary year of 1917, Emmeline Pankhurst and her secretary Jessie Kenney, both well-known suffragettes, traveled to the beleaguered country to talk with Russian women about suffrage, but also to persuade Russia to remain in the war. While there, Pankhurst and Kenney met many leading figures in Russia: Felix Yusupov, the ringleader in the murder of Grigorii Rasputin; members of the Provisional Government, including its president, Alexander Kerensky; and Maria Bochkareva, the commander of the Women’s Death Battalion. They spoke with officials from the YMCA and the Red Cross and gave talks to small groups of women in private homes. Throughout, Kenney kept a diary, which she later turned into a manuscript, “The Price of Liberty.” This volume introduces Kenney’s Russian diary to a general audience, offering a new perspective on the Russian Revolution and facilitating awareness of this unique episode in the story of the British suffrage movement.

Dr. Lee A. Farrow is Distinguished Research Professor and Distinguished Teaching Professor at Auburn University at Montgomery and Chair of the Department of History and World Cultures. A graduate from Tulane University (1998), she has spent most of her career researching in the field of the history of Russian-American relations.

Editor’s Introduction
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Jessie Kenney’s Acknowledgments from Her Unpublished Manuscript, “The Price of Liberty”
Part One
Foreword
Introduction – Part One
Introduction – Part Two
Part Two – The Russian Diary
June
Chapter I
Chapter II
July
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
August
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
September
Chapter I
Chapter II
Goodbye to Russia
Part Three – Goodbye to Russia
on the Home Front
Index