A Revolution Of Their Own
Voices Of Women In Soviet History
Published on 20. May 2019
252 pages
978-0-429-97117-4 (ISBN)
Description
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
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
21,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-429-97117-4 (9780429971174)
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08/2019
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Routledge
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11/1997
1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
€79.00
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Barbara Engel | Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck
A Revolution Of Their Own
Voices Of Women In Soviet History
Book
11/1997
1st Edition
Westview Press Inc
€126.48
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Person
Barbara Alpern Engel is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck is visiting fellow at the Center for Russian, Central, and East European Studies, Rutgers University.
Content
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
