Yekaterina Furtseva
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Yekaterina Alexeyevna Furtseva was a Soviet politician and member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. She was the second woman to be elected member of the CPSU Presidium and the fourth woman e
Furtseva in 1963
Elena Stasova
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Elena Dmitriyevna Stasova was a Russian Soviet revolutionary, Old Bolshevik and an early leader of the Russian Communist Party.
Yekaterina Furtseva
…the CPSU Presidium (20th term) and the fourth woman elected to the CPSU Secretariat (20th term). The first female Politburo and Secretariat member was Yelena Stasova. Furtseva was born in Vyshny Volochyok. Until the 1940s, she worked as an ordinary weaver at one of Moscow's textile factories. She had been a minor…
Stasova, c. 1907
Stasova, c. 1906
Stasova and Vladimir Lenin at the 2nd Comintern Congress, 1920