Anastasia Romanov

"To build socialism means not only building gigantic factories and flour mills. This is essential but not enough for building socialism. People must grow in mind and heart. And on the basis of this individual growth of each in our conditions a new type of mighty socialist collective will in the long run be formed, where "I" and "we" will merge into one inseparable whole. Such a collective can only develop on the basis of profound ideological solidarity and an equally profound emotional rapprochement and mutual understanding."
- Anastasia Romanov, 20 September 1902

Anastasia Romanov was a Wawakanise Democratic Revolutionary, politician, and the wife of Roaldin Amundsven from 1899 until her death in 1912. However, her death was a complete mistake as royal officers originally intended to assassinate her husband in an attempt to reduce the Democratic Party's momentum by removing a key figurehead. Due to this action, she would be martyred by the Democrats and used as a symbol for support of revolutionary change within the country.

Life

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Anastasia Romanov was born Anastasiya Konstantinivna Twersky on 16 December 1875 as the 3rd child of a wealthy Ukrainian-Jewish family of farmers from the Yekaterinoslav Governorate. Her parents were Konstantin Leontijovych Vasylyuk (1844-1924) and his wife Yuliya Twersky (1850-1916). Romanov's father converted to Judaism from eastern orthodoxy after meeting marrying his wife and moving to Yekaterinoslav to live with her in 1872 due to the restrictions for Jewish citizens in Wawakanatote at the time. The language spoken at home was a mixture of Wawakanise and Ukrainian. Her younger brother, Kostyantyn, would grow up to become a Democrat and ultimately give his life during the events of the Revolution of 1917.

Leadership

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Policies

• Socialist-Oriented Market Economy
  Romanov first theorized a market economy oriented towards socialism in late 1901 with the help of Amundsven. According to Romanov, the market should be derived from a multi-sectoral economy that would seek to aid in the construction of socialism while also allowing some people to gain wealth overtime in order to speed up development and boost productive forces in a post-Tsarist Wawakanatote. She commonly stated the needs that a new Wawakanise government would need to immediately pursue upon the overthrow of the Tsar, which included opening up the economy, promoting fair trade, and begin building positive relations with neighboring nations in order to stroke away any political animosities. However, criticism of her often referred to her as a reformist and "revolutionary capitalist", with her main critics being Radek Wesseley and the Menshevik Bloc of the Democratic Party.

• Abortion
  According to interviews, Romanov had an overall negative view on abortion, but still advocated for it on behalf of working class families living in poverty. She believed that abortion could not be abolished under a Tsarist or Capitalist system, but that the conditions which compel women to an abortion could only be undone through a socialism. Critics of the Bolshevik and Menshevik Blocs of the Democratic Workers Party referred to her as a "conservative", while critics from the Wawakanise Right often referred to her as the "Child Killer".

• Anti-Monarchism
  Experiencing the systematic oppression of the Jewish people firsthand at a young age under the Wawakanise Empire, an 18 year old Anastasia changed her name from "Twersky" to "Romanov" after a former Wawakanise royal family. Afterwords, she would partake in daily protests against the monarchy between 1893 and 1898 until she met Amundsven and joined the Social Democratic Labor Party in late 1898. After a few years, she would grow her influence within the party and among the masses until her unfortunate assassination.
  

For & Against

• For: Communism, Socialism, Internationalism, Fair Trade, Progressivism, Cooperatives, Proletarian Democracy, Engelism, Amundsvenism, Abortion (under capitalism)

• Against: Corruption, Capitalism, Imperialism, Monarchism, Isolationism, Protectionism, Conservatism, Autocracy, Abortion (under socialism)

Quotes

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"Poverty forces women to sell their bodies, forces women who are not prostitutes making a trade of it, but mothers of families, who often do it for the sake of their children, for the sake of their old mothers."
- 29 November 1911

"A radical reform of the family and, more generally, of the whole order of domestic life requires a great conscious effort on the part of the whole mass of the working class, and presumes the existence in the class itself of a powerful molecular force of inner desire for culture and progress."
- 16 March 1907

"We must know how to build Communism with non-Communist hands."
- 22 January 1912

"As long as woman is chained to her housework, the care of the family, the cooking and sewing, all her chances of participation in social and political life are cut down in the extreme."
- 18 May 1907

"The husband, torn away from his usual surroundings by mobilization, changed into a revolutionary citizen at the civic front. A momentous change. His outlook is wider, his spiritual aspirations higher and of a more complicated order. He is a different man. And then he returns to find everything there practically unchanged. The old harmony and understanding with the people at home in family relationship is gone. No new understanding arises. The mutual wondering changes into mutual discontent, then into ill will. The family is broken up."
- 12 November 1910

"The husband is a communist. He lives an active life, is engaged in social work, his mind grows, his personal life is absorbed by his work. But his wife is also a communist. She wants to join in social work, attend public meetings, work in the soviet or the union. Home life becomes practically nonexistent before they are aware of it, or the missing of home atmosphere re suits in continual collisions. Husband and wife disagree. The family is broken up."
- 12 November 1910

"The husband is a communist, the wife is nonparty. The husband is absorbed by his work; the wife, as before, only looks after her home. Relations are “peaceful,” based, in fact, on customary estrangement But the husband’s committee – the communist “cell” – decrees that he should take away the icons hanging in his house. He is quite willing to obey, finding it but natural. For his wife it is a catastrophe. Just such a small occurrence exposes the abyss that separates the minds of husband and wife. Relations are spoiled. The family is broken up."
- 12 November 1910

"An old family. Ten to fifteen years of common life. The husband is a good worker, devoted to his family; the wife lives also for her home, giving it all her energy. But just by chance she comes in touch with a communist women’s organization. A new world opens before her eyes. Her energy finds a new and wider object. The family is neglected. The husband is irritated. The wife is hurt in her newly awakened civic consciousness. The family is broken up."
- 12 November 1910

"Examples of such domestic tragedies, all leading to one end the breaking up of the family – could be multiplied endlessly. We have indicated the most typical cases. In all our examples the tragedy is due to a collision between communist and nonparty elements. But the breaking up of the family, that is to say, of the old-type family, is not confined to just the top of the class as the one most exposed to the influence of new conditions. The disintegrating movement in family relationships penetrates deeper. The communist vanguard merely passes sooner and more violently through what is inevitable for the class as a whole. The censorious attitude towards old conditions, the new claims upon the family, extend far beyond the border line between the communist and the working class as a whole."
- 12 November 1910

"Do not imagine, gentlemen, that in criticizing freedom of trade we have the least intention of defending the system of protection."
- 26 November 1904

"The mass homelessness of children is undoubtedly the most unmistakable and most tragic symptom of the difficult situation of the mother."
- 18 August 1911

"Socialism means human relations without greed, friendship without envy and intrigue, love without base calculation."
- 14 September 1912

"Economic and cultural backwardness has produced a cruel reaction."
- 12 April 1912

"The Wawakanise monarchy, hypocritical Wawakanise conservatism, religiosity, servility, sanctimoniousness all this is old rags, rubbish, the refuse of centuries which we have no need for whatsoever."
- 16 November 1912