1st Edition

Suffragettes in the Land of the Tsars Jessie Kenney’s Diary of Revolutionary Russia

Edited By Lee Farrow Copyright 2026
140 Pages
by Central European University Press

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... Read more

Acknowledgments

Editor’s Introduction

A Word About the Original Manuscript

Jessie Kenney’s Acknowledgments from Her Unpublished Manuscript, “The Price of Liberty”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 – Back in London: Campaigns on the Home Front

Index

Biography

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.