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Anastasia Posadskaya
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Author_Barbara Engel
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Factory's Trade Union Committee
Factory’s Trade Union Committee
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Flax Seeds
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Good Life
Heart Ruptured
Husband's Belief
Husband’s Belief
Large Family
Local Trade Union Committee
Medical Battalion
Open Hearth Furnaces
Ordinary Soviet People
peasant women's experiences
Perm Oblast
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Russian Orthodox Priest
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Russian Women’s Movement
Soviet era
Soviet gender studies
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Urals Polytechnic Institute
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- ISBN 9780813333663
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The stories of these eight Russian women offer an extremely rare perspective into personal life in the Soviet era. Some were from the poor peasantry and working class, groups in whose name the revolution was carried out and who sometimes gained unprecedented opportunities after the revolution. Others, born to ?misfortune? as the daughters of nobles, parish priests, or those peasants termed well-to-do, suffered bitterly as enemies to a new government. The women interviewed here speak candidly about family life, work, sexual relations, marriage and divorce, childbirth and childbearing, and legalized abortion and the underground pursuit of such services after abortion was outlawed in 1936.As no previous book has done, A Revolution of Their Own illuminates the harsh reality of women's daily lives in the Soviet Union as well as reveals the accomplishments made possible by the expanded opportunities that the new Soviet government provided for women. Their stories show why many Russian women continue to take pride in the public achievements of the Soviet period despite, or perhaps because of, the painful price each was made to pay.
Barbara Alpern Engel is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck is visiting fellow at the Center for Russian, Central, and East European Studies, Rutgers University.
