21 research outputs found
They Fought for the Motherland: Russia's Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution. By Laurie S. Stoff. Modern War Studies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 294 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $34.95, hard bound.
No full textA Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia. By Sheila Fitzpatrick. London: I. B. Taurus & Co. Ltd., 2013. vi, 346 pp. Plates. $35.00, hard bound.
No full text2. Women and Urban Culture
No full textIn the final decades of the nineteenth century, Russia underwent the social and economic transformations that, centuries earlier, had given rise to urban culture in much of Western Europe. In the West, the commercial revolution and rise of a market economy had resulted in a critical mass of urban population that did not depend on the land. The development of urban-rural differences in lifestyle and mentality; the existence of forms of commercial activity that affected the ’physical fabric’ of..
Creating the New Soviet Woman: Women's Magazines as Engineers of Female Identity, 1922-53. By Lynne Attwood. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. vi, 213 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00, hard bound.
No full textZhenskii Vopros V Rossii 50-60 gg. XIX v. By G. A. Tishkin. Leningrad: Izdatel'stvo Leningradskogo Universiteta, 1984. 238 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. 2.70 rubles.
No full textWomen without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia - Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia. By Jennifer Utrata. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xvi, 269 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. 29.95 paper.
No full textDehexing Sex: Russian Womanhood during and after Glasnost. By Helena Goscilo. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. vi, 183 pp. Bibliography. Index. 15.95, paper.
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The Rebel on the Bridge: A Life of the Decembrist Baron Andrey Rozen (1800-84). By Glynn Barratt. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1975. xviii, 310 pp. + 8 pp. plates. Maps. $19.00.
No full textRussia's women: accommodation, resistance, transformation
No full textBy ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women - and women's reactions to these efforts - have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional assumptions by integrating women into the Russian past. Using recent advances in the study of gender, the family, class, and the status of women, the authors examine various roles of Russian women and offer a broad overview of a vibrant and growing field
