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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450918503321

Autore

McDermid Jane

Titolo

Midwives Of The Revolution

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-135-36220-3

1-280-14407-6

9786610144075

0-203-98160-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Women's history Midwives of the revolution

Altri autori (Persone)

HillyarAnna

Disciplina

947.084/1

Soggetti

Women - Soviet Union - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Women

Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Participation, Female

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references. (p. 203-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE  Introduction; CHAPTER TWO  The woman question before 1917: what was to be done?; CHAPTER THREE  The making of a female revolutionary; CHAPTER FOUR  The lives of working women on the eve of the First World War; CHAPTER FIVE  From World War to the eve of Revolution; CHAPTER SIX  Women and the 1917 Revolution in Petrograd; CHAPTER SEVEN  Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An analysis of the part played by women in the Russian revolution. It aims to show that the extent of female activists' participation in the events of 1917 was far wider that has hitherto been thought.