A revolution of their own : voices of women in Soviet history / edited by Barbara Alpern Engel and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck ; translated by Sona Hoisington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engel, Barbara Alpern.

Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, Anastasia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and communism--Soviet Union--Case studies.

Women and communism.

Women--Soviet Union--Biography.

Women.

Women--Soviet Union--Social conditions--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (486 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking collection is the first book to present the history of women in the Soviet era by bringing together firsthand accounts of Russian women and their lives. The eight women interviewed for this book represent diverse social backgrounds and geographical regions?but all were born before the Bolshevik revolution, a generation intimately familiar with the world's first attempt to create a socialist society and to promise full emancipation for women. Their narratives vividly illustrate both the difficulties posed by such extreme social instability and the vastly expanded opport

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Introduction; Living Someone Else's Life; Taking Advantage of New Opportunities; Daughter of a Village Priest; Overcoming an "Incorrect" Birth; A Life in a Peasant Village; From Peasant to Journalist; Under a Sword of Damocles; Four Years as a Frontline Physician; Afterword: Evaluating the Soviet Experience; On Choices, Methods, and Silences; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-98225-9

0-429-97117-6

1-283-30107-5

9786613301079

0-8133-4702-5

1-4294-8971-5

OCLC:

756484309