UID:
almafu_9959244197302883
Format:
1 online resource (416 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-69643-5
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9786613673398
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0-253-00104-8
Content:
Synthesizing several decades of scholarship by historians East and West, Barbara Evans Clements traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the nation. Sketching lived experiences across the centuries, she demonstrates the key roles that women played in shaping Russia's political, economic, social, and cultural development for over a millennium. The story Clements tells is one of hardship and endurance, but also one of achievement by women who, for example, promoted the conversion to Christianity, governed estates, created great art, re
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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A sketch of the historiography -- The women of the Rus, 900-1462 -- The age of the Domostroi, 1462-1695 -- Empresses and serfs, 1695-1855 -- Industrialization and urbanization, 1855-1914 -- Activist women and revolutionary change, 1890-1930 -- Toil, terror, and triumphs, 1930-53 -- Making better lives, 1953-91 -- Gains and losses, 1991-2010.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-00101-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-00097-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
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