LEADER 04486nam 2200625 450 001 9910727269403321 005 20230809223337.0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226256269 035 $a(CKB)3710000001118560 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4829436 035 $a(DE-B1597)549965 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226256269 035 $a(OCoLC)979417545 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001118560 100 $a20170410h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican girls in red Russia $echasing the Soviet dream /$fJulia L. Mickenberg 210 1$aChicago, [Illinois] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cThe University of Chicago Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (427 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 300 $aIncludes index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tINTRODUCTION: ?American Girls in Red Russia? -- $tPART I. Tender Revolutionaries and Child Savers -- $t1. Dreaming in Red -- $t2. Child Savers and Child Saviors -- $tPART II. Living and Working in the New Russia -- $t3. ?A New Pennsylvania? -- $t4. ?Eyes on Russia? -- $tPART III. Performing Revolution -- $t5. Dancing Revolution -- $t6. Black and White?and Yellow?in Red -- $tPART IV. Trials, Tribulations, and Battles -- $t7. Heroines and Heretics on the Russian Front -- $tEPILOGUE: Red Spy Queens? -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIf you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia L. Mickenberg uncovers in American Girls in Red Russia, there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though more were just intrigued by the ?Soviet experiment.? But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, some by the mundane realities, others by horrifying truths. Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia as they sought models for a revolutionary new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Soviet women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare. Even women from Soviet national minorities?many recently unveiled?became public figures, as African American and Jewish women noted. Yet as Mickenberg?s collective biography shows, Russia turned out to be as much a grim commune as a utopia of freedom, replete with economic, social, and sexual inequities. American Girls in Red Russia recounts the experiences of women who saved starving children from the Russian famine, worked on rural communes in Siberia, wrote for Moscow or New York newspapers, or performed on Soviet stages. Mickenberg finally tells these forgotten stories, full of hope and grave disappointments. 606 $aAmericans$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aWomen$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen and socialism$zSoviet Union 606 $aFeminism$zSoviet Union 610 $aAfrican American. 610 $aJewish. 610 $aRussia. 610 $aSoviet Union. 610 $achildren. 610 $afeminism. 610 $ahumanitarian. 610 $anew women. 610 $aperformance. 615 0$aAmericans$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and socialism 615 0$aFeminism 676 $a305.420947 700 $aMickenberg$b Julia L.$01362625 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910727269403321 996 $aAmerican girls in red Russia$93382062 997 $aUNINA