Anna
Shabanova,
the daughter of a wealthy landowner, was born in Russia in 1848.
When she was a young woman she joined a radical political group
and in 1865 was arrested and imprisoned for six months.
Shabanova wanted to become a doctor and unable
to train in Russia moved to Helsinki. She returned in 1873 when
a new women's medical course started in St. Petersburg. In 1878
she became one of the first women in Russia to qualify as a doctor.
Shabanova was one of the founders of the Russian
Women's Mutual Philanthropic Society and during the 1905
Revolution campaigned for women's suffrage.
Anna
Shabanova
1.
Was highly critical of Nicholas
II
and the autocracy.
2.
Wanted Russia to have universal suffrage.
3. Wanted the
Russian government to allow freedom of expression and an end to
political censorship of newspapers and books.
4.
Thought Russia should support Serbia against the Triple
Alliance.
5.
Thought Russia should honour its obligations and support the Triple
Entente against the Triple Alliance.
6. As
the
Russian Army was the largest army in
the world she was convinced that Russia would defeat Austria-Hungary
and Germany
in a war.
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