03079nam 2200661Ia 450 991081421510332120240514041242.00-429-98225-90-429-97117-61-283-30107-597866133010790-8133-4702-51-4294-8971-5(CKB)1000000000476044(EBL)782095(OCoLC)756484309(SSID)ssj0000237784(PQKBManifestationID)11213547(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237784(PQKBWorkID)10222068(PQKB)10971507(MiAaPQ)EBC782095(Au-PeEL)EBL782095(CaPaEBR)ebr10502285(CaONFJC)MIL330107(EXLCZ)99100000000047604419970709d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA revolution of their own voices of women in Soviet history /edited by Barbara Alpern Engel and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck ; translated by Sona Hoisington1st ed.Boulder, Colo. Westview Press19981 online resource (486 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8133-3365-2 0-8133-3366-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index.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; IndexThis 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 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 opportWomen and communismSoviet UnionCase studiesWomenSoviet UnionBiographyWomenSoviet UnionSocial conditionsCase studiesWomen and communismWomenWomenSocial conditions305.42/092/247Engel Barbara Alpern675382Posadskaya-Vanderbeck Anastasia1625174MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814215103321A revolution of their own3960533UNINA