A Revolution Of Their Own : Voices Of Women In Soviet History.

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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 befo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Engel, Barbara
Other Authors: Posadskaya-vanderbeck, Anastasia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Westview Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Women > Soviet Union > Biography.
Women > Soviet Union > Social conditions > Case studies.
Women and communism > Soviet Union > Case studies.
Femmes > URSS > Biographies.
Femmes > URSS > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Femmes et communisme > URSS > Études de cas.
Women
Women and communism
Women > Social conditions
Soviet Union
Biographies
Case studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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