Rose Cohen (feminist)
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Rose Cohen 30 July 1894 London, Great Britain |
| Died | 28 November 1937 (aged 43) Moscow, USSR |
| Cause of death | Execution |
| Citizenship | Great Britain |
| Spouse(s) | David Petrovsky |
| Children | Alexey D.Petrovsky |
Rose Cohen (30 June 1894 – 28 November 1937) was a British-born feminist and suffragist. She was a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and worked for Communist International from 1920 to 1929. Between 1931 and 1937, Cohen served as a foreign editor of The Moscow News. She was executed during the Great Purge and posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
Rose Cohen was born in 1894 in London's East End to a family of Jewish immigrants from Lodz, Poland. Her father Maurice Cohen was a tailor, but later opened his own business and prospered. Through Workers' Educational Association Cohen became well versed in economics and politics, and fluent in three languages. It was a great achievement for the daughter of immigrants. Cohen joined a suffragette movement in Great Britain in the 1910s. By 1916, British intelligence had placed her under surveillance. Transcripts of intercepted letters and phone calls became publicly available in 2003.
Her education allowed Cohen to get a job in the London County Council, where she worked until 1917, and later in the Labour Research Department. She left the LRD in 1920. Towards the end of the First World War the department became the centre of the young leftist intellectuals. In his memoirs Maurice Reckitt wrote that Cohen "had great vivacity and charm... and was probably the most popular individual in our little movement... ." In 1920 she became a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
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