LEADER 03940nam 2200433zu 450 001 9910917256103321 005 20241203191049.0 035 $a(CKB)36718953900041 035 $a(Perlego)2068247 035 $a(NjHacI)9936718953900041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936718953900041 100 $a20210205d2017 uy | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAmerican Girls in Red Russia $eChasing the Soviet Dream 210 $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2017 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 427 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aAmerican Girls in Red Russia ;$v6 311 08$a9780226256122 311 08$a022625612X 311 08$a9780226256269 311 08$a022625626X 327 $aIntroduction -- American girls in red Russia -- Tender revolutionaries and child savers -- Dreaming in red: reformers, rebels, and a revolutionary babushka, 1905 -- 1919 -- Child savers and child saviors, 1919 -- 1925 -- Living and working in the new Russia: from Kuzbas to Moscow -- "A new Pennsylvania": seeking home in Siberia, 1922 -- 1926 -- "Eyes on Russia": gal reporters on the Moscow News -- Performing revolution -- Dancing revolution -- Black and white "and yellow" in red: performing race in Russia -- Trials, tribulations, and battles -- Heroines and heretics on the Russian front -- Epilogue. Red spy queens?. 330 8 $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.   410 0$aAmerican Girls in Red Russia ;$v6. 606 $aWomen and socialism 615 0$aWomen and socialism. 676 $a335.0082 700 $aMickenberg$b Julia L.$01362625 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910917256103321 996 $aAmerican girls in red Russia$93382062 997 $aUNINA