Katy Turton

Katy Turton's main research interests centre around the role of women and family networks in the Russian revolutionary movement. Katy has been examining the family life of Russian revolutionaries using a variety of archival sources and memoirs.

She was an undergraduate at the University of Aberdeen and a postgraduate at the University of Strathclyde and then the University of Glasgow, where she completed a PhD on Lenin's sisters, Anna, Ol'ga and Mariia Ul'ianova. She joined Queen's University, Belfast in 2005.