Format:
1 online resource (416 pages)
ISBN:
9780253001047
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, rebelled against the government, established charities, built the tanks that rolled into Berlin in 1945, and flew the planes that strafed the retreating Wehrmacht. This daunting and complex history is presented in an engaging survey that integrates this scholarship into the field of Russian and post-Soviet history.
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Names -- Glossary -- A Sketch of the Historiography -- 1. The Women of the Rus 900-1462 -- 2. The Age of The Domostroi, 1462-1695 -- 3. Empresses and Serfs 1695-1855 -- 4. Industrialization and Urbanization 1855-1914 -- 5. Activist Women and Revolutionary Change 1890-1930 -- 6. Toil, Terror, and Triumphs 1930-53 -- 7. Making Better Lives 1953-91 -- 8. Gains and Losses 1991-2010 -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253000972
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780253000972
Language:
English
Keywords:
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