LouiseByrant

Louise Bryant was born in Reno, San Francisco in 1885. She was the daughter of a popular journalist Hugh Moran, and after his death she adopted the name of her step father Sheridan Bryant. Louise attended the University of Oregon where she became an activist for the struggle for women’s suffrage. When she had graduated she worked briefly as a schoolteacher until she then like her father went on to establish herself as a journalist in Portland. In 1909, she married a wealthy dentist, Paul Trullinger. She continued to write for years and in 1912 started writing for the radical journal, the masses and Blast, a San Francisco revolutionary weekly edited by Alexander Berkman. From this job, Louise then decided to move to New York to join a group of radicals associated with the masses. This group included Max Eastman, John Reed, Sherwood Anderson, Eugene O’Neil and Boardman Robinson.
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From her studies and her life in journalism to joining the radicals, Louise’s developed strong beliefs and feelings in many areas. She was highly critical of Nicholas the II and the whole idea of the dictatorship, she wanted Russia to have universal suffrage. She also believed the Russian government should allow freedom of expression and an end to political censorship of both newspaper and books. Louise was opposed on going to war against Austria-Hungary and Germany as she thought there were problems in their own country that needed to be tended to first. All these beliefs are why she choose to become a member of the Bolsheviks revolutionaries.