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Midwives of the Revolution : female Bolsheviks and women workers in 1917 / Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDermid, Jane.
- Series:
- Women's history Midwives of the revolution
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Soviet Union--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Women.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Participation, Female.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (243 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An analysis of the part played by women in the Russian revolution. It aims to show that the extent of female activists' participation in the events of 1917 was far wider that has hitherto been thought.
- Contents:
- BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; CHAPTER TWO The woman question before 1917: what was to be done?; CHAPTER THREE The making of a female revolutionary; CHAPTER FOUR The lives of working women on the eve of the First World War; CHAPTER FIVE From World War to the eve of Revolution; CHAPTER SIX Women and the 1917 Revolution in Petrograd; CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references. (p. 203-233) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-04-028958-4
- 1-04-029301-8
- 1-135-36219-X
- 1-135-36220-3
- 1-280-14407-6
- 9786610144075
- 0-203-98160-X
- 9780203981603
- OCLC:
- 475947148
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