In the Shadow of Revolution : Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War / Yuri Slezkine, Sheila Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fitzpatrick, Sheila, editor.

Slezkine, Yuri, editor.

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Women--Soviet Union--Biography.

Women.

Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--History--1917-1936.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 443 p. )

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way those events were perceived and reflected in the humble and distant corner of Russia that was the Cossack town of Korenovskaia." What these women witnessed and experienced, and what they were moved to describe, is part of the extraordinary portrait of life in revolutionary Russia presented in this book. A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century, In the Shadow of Revolution brings together the testimony of Soviet citizens and émigrés, intellectuals of aristocratic birth and Soviet milkmaids, housewives and engineers, Bolshevik activists and dedicated opponents of the Soviet regime. In literary memoirs, oral interviews, personal dossiers, public speeches, and letters to the editor, these women document their diverse experience of the upheavals that reshaped Russia in the first half of this century. As is characteristic of twentieth-century Russian women's autobiographies, these life stories take their structure not so much from private events like childbirth or marriage as from great public events. Accordingly the collection is structured around the events these women see as touchstones: the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-20; the switch to the New Economic Policy in the 1920s and collectivization; and the Stalinist society of the 1930s, including the Great Terror. Edited by two preeminent historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, the volume includes introductions that investigate the social historical context of these women's lives as well as the structure of their autobiographical narratives.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Lives and Times / Fitzpatrick, Sheila

Lives as Tales / Slezkine, Yuri

PART I. Civil War as a Way of Life (1917-1920)

1. My Reminiscences (1) / Olitskaia, Ekaterina

2. In 1917 / Litveiko, Anna

3. Where Laughter Is Never Heard / Melgunova-Stepanova, P. E.

4. A Mother's Story / Andzhievskaia, Anna

5. The Road to Exile / Zhemchuzhnaia, Zinaida

6. Autobiography / Krupskaia, Nadezhda

7. Things Seen and Suffered / Varsher, Tatiana

8. Cavalry Boy / Patrikeeva, Zinaida

9. Recollections / Elenevskaia, Irina

10. The Way of Bitterness / Volkonskaia, Sofia

PART II. Toward "New Forms of Life" (The 1920s)

11. My Life / Korevanova, Agrippina

12. What Am I to Do?

13. My Reminiscences (2) / Olitskaia, Ekaterina

14. Why I Do Not Belong in the Party / Ivanova, Paraskeva

15. Arina's Children / Belskaia, Maria

16. Sent by the Komsomol / Solovieva, Antonina

17. Peasant Narratives (1) / Bazeleva, Nenila

18. A Worker's Life / Balashova, Anna

19. Students in the First Five-Year Plan / Bogdan, Valentina

20. Building the City of Youth / Kiparenko, Alla

21. A Belomor Confession / Iankovskaia, Anna

22. The Green Lamp / Libedinskaia, Lidia

PART III. "Life Has Become Merrier" (The 1930s)

23. The Most Important Thing / Angelina, Pasha

24. Peasant Narratives (2) / Kislova, Efrosinia

25. We Were Fighting for an Idea! / Treivas, Fruma

26. Speeches by Stakhanovites / Slavnikova, N. I.

27. A Cross-Examination / Ulianova

28. A Sea Captain's Story / Shchetinina, Anna

29. Farewell to the Komsomol / Khuttonen, Kh.

30. Autobiography / Plotnikova, Anastasia

31. Speeches by Stakhanovites'Wives / Vlasovskaia, A. V.

32. A Family Chronicle / Shikheeva-Gaister, Inna

33. The Story of My Life / Maslennikova, Evdokia

34. Memoirs of an Engineer / Bogdan, Valentina

35. Engineers'Wives / Troib, Frida

36. My Reminiscences (3) / Olitskaia, Ekaterina

GLOSSARY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691190235

0691190232

OCLC:

1132226569