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UNINA9910814215103321 |
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Titolo |
A revolution of their own : voices of women in Soviet history / / edited by Barbara Alpern Engel and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck ; translated by Sona Hoisington |
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Boulder, Colo., : Westview Press, 1998 |
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ISBN |
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0-429-98225-9 |
0-429-97117-6 |
1-283-30107-5 |
9786613301079 |
0-8133-4702-5 |
1-4294-8971-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (486 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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EngelBarbara Alpern |
Posadskaya-VanderbeckAnastasia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women and communism - Soviet Union |
Women - Soviet Union |
Women - Soviet Union - Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 before the Bolshevik revolution, a generation intimately familiar with the world's first attempt to create a socialist |
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