A Revolution Of Their Own
Voices Of Women In Soviet History
Westview Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 1997
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8133-3365-6 (ISBN)
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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 regionsbut all were born before the Bolshevik revolution, a generation intimately familiar with the worlds 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 opportunity for women in Soviet Russia. }The stories of these eight Russian women offer an extremely rare perspective into personal life in the Soviet era. Some were from the poor peasantry and working class, groups in whose name the revolution was carried out and who sometimes gained unprecedented opportunities after the revolution. Others, born to misfortune as the daughters of nobles, parish priests, or those peasants termed well-to-do, suffered bitterly as enemies to a new government.
The women interviewed here speak candidly about family life, work, sexual relations, marriage and divorce, childbirth and childbearing, and legalized abortion and the underground pursuit of such services after abortion was outlawed in 1936.As no previous book has done, A Revolution of Their Own illuminates the harsh reality of womens daily lives in the Soviet Union as well as reveals the accomplishments made possible by the expanded opportunities that the new Soviet government provided for women. Their stories show why many Russian women continue to take pride in the public achievements of the Soviet period despite, or perhaps because of, the painful price each was made to pay. }
The women interviewed here speak candidly about family life, work, sexual relations, marriage and divorce, childbirth and childbearing, and legalized abortion and the underground pursuit of such services after abortion was outlawed in 1936.As no previous book has done, A Revolution of Their Own illuminates the harsh reality of womens daily lives in the Soviet Union as well as reveals the accomplishments made possible by the expanded opportunities that the new Soviet government provided for women. Their stories show why many Russian women continue to take pride in the public achievements of the Soviet period despite, or perhaps because of, the painful price each was made to pay. }
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8133-3365-6 (9780813333656)
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Content
Introduction; Living Someone Elses Life; (Anna Akimovna Dubova. ); Taking Advantage of New Opportunities; (Sofia Nikandrovna Pavlova. ); Daughter of a Village Priest; (Vera Konstantinovna Fleisher. ); Overcoming an Incorrect Birth; (Antonina Aleksandrovna Berezhnaia. ); A Life in a Peasant Village; (Irina Ivanovna Kniazeva. ); From Peasant to Journalist; (Elena Grigorievna Ponomarenko. ); Under a Sword of Damocles; (Elena Trofimovna Dolgikh. ); Four Years as a Frontline Physician; (Vera Ivanovna Malakhova. ); Afterword: Evaluating the Soviet Experience; On Choices, Methods, and Silences