The women's liberation movement in Russia : feminism, nihilism, and bolshevism, 1860-1930 / Richard Stites.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stites, Richard, 1931-2010, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Soviet Union--History.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 476 p. )

Edition:

New ed. with afterword.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all come to life in this absorbing and dramatic account. The author's history begins with the feminist, nihilist, and populist impulses of the 1860's and 1870's, and leads to the social mobilization campaigns of the early Soviet period.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Note on Transliteration and Dates

Preface

PART ONE: ON THE EVE

I. Women and the Russian Tradition

PART TWO: THE WOMAN QUESTION 1855-1881

II. The Birth of the Woman Question

III. The Feminist Response

IV. The Nihilist Response

V. The Radical Response

PART THREE: THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT 1881-1917

VI. The New Generation

VII. The Feminist Movement

VIII. The Socialist Women's Movement

IX. Women against Women

PART FOUR: WOMEN'S LIBERATION

X. Bolshevik Liberation

XI. The Sexual Revolution

XII. The Revolution and Women

Afterword to the 1990 Edition

Appendix. Note on Kollontai's Social Bases of the Woman Question (1909)

Bibliography

Index

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Notes:

In: ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4008-4327-8

OCLC:

1259320948