They believed that it was best served by valuing reason over desire. This comes as no surprise considering that it was a time of enlightenment and that people should educated themselves and be sensible, a lot more than they should be emotional and envious and things like that.
She fought for woman suffrage and rights throughout her life....
It was Lenin who was the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917 during the November revolution, although Stalin was definitely part of the Revolution. He would later seize power and became a ruthless dictator.
