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Passion at top of the revolution

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20021203
Author:LYNWOOD ABRAM

Passion at top of the revolution

By LYNWOOD ABRAM Houston Chronicle

Tuesday, December 3, 2002

Lenin's Mistress: The Life of Inessa Armand. By Michael Pearson. Random House, $25.95. 320 pages.

It's too bad that Fyodor Dostoevsky didn't know Inessa Armand: he could have included her in his great novel about the psychic perils of revolutionary activity, "The Devils."

One of the least known, but most important, insiders in the early days of the Bolshevik dictatorship in the Soviet Union, Armand was dedicated, intelligent and attractive.

Although she was the illegitimate child of an opera singer, ...

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