# Maria Spiridonova — Ten Days That Shook the World character guide

> Maria Spiridonova in Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Spiridonova, Maria Spiridonova

**First appearance:** 0011-i-background

## Snapshot

The fiery peasant tribune of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, Spiridonova carried the countryside's hunger for land into the heart of the revolution's smoke-filled committees.

## Who they are

Spiridonova leads the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, the party that inherits the peasants' cause and desperately needs their backing to survive alongside the organized city proletariat. Her movement's fate hinges on whether the eighty-percent peasant majority will follow the Bolsheviks' land decrees or drift away. In the revolution's middle arc, she embodies the fragile alliance between workers and peasants that Smolny must hold together or fracture.

## In the story

### [Political Parties](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/political-parties)

Listed as a leader of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries.

### [Appendix to Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/appendix-to-chapter-xii)

Her faction eventually gained the majority in the Peasants' Congress.

### [The Peasants' Congress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ten_days_that_shook_the_world_se/chapters/2)

Her faction ultimately won the majority vote in the Congress.

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