LEADER 03082nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910778298603321 005 20230207224845.0 010 $a0-429-98225-9 010 $a0-429-97117-6 010 $a1-283-30107-5 010 $a9786613301079 010 $a0-8133-4702-5 010 $a1-4294-8971-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000476044 035 $a(EBL)782095 035 $a(OCoLC)756484309 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237784 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11213547 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237784 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10222068 035 $a(PQKB)10971507 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC782095 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL782095 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10502285 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL330107 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000476044 100 $a19970709d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA revolution of their own$b[electronic resource] $evoices of women in Soviet history /$fedited by Barbara Alpern Engel and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck ; translated by Sona Hoisington 210 $aBoulder, Colo. $cWestview Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (486 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8133-3365-2 311 $a0-8133-3366-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aThis 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 opport 606 $aWomen and communism$zSoviet Union$vCase studies 606 $aWomen$zSoviet Union$vBiography 606 $aWomen$zSoviet Union$xSocial conditions$vCase studies 615 0$aWomen and communism 615 0$aWomen 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions 676 $a305.42/092/247 701 $aEngel$b Barbara Alpern$0675382 701 $aPosadskaya-Vanderbeck$b Anastasia$01576380 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778298603321 996 $aA revolution of their own$93854113 997 $aUNINA