Bolshevik Women

Author : Barbara Evans Clements
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521599202

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Bolshevik Women by Barbara Evans Clements Pdf

Bolshevik Women is a history of the women who joined the Soviet Communist Party before 1921. The book examines the reasons these women became revolutionaries, the work they did in the underground before 1917, their participation in the revolution and civil war, and their service in the building of the USSR. Drawing on a database of more than five hundred individuals as well as on intensive research into the lives of the most prominent female Bolsheviks, the study argues that women were important members of the Communist Party at its lower levels during its formative years. They were lieutenants, printing leaflets, speaking to crowds, and running party operations in the cities. They also created one of the most remarkable efforts to emancipate women from traditional society of the twentieth century. This book traces their fascinating lives from the earliest years of the revolutionary movement through to their old age in the time of Khrushchev and Brezhnev.

Author : Kathy Fairfax
Publisher : Resistance Books
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 090919694X

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Comrades in Arms by Kathy Fairfax Pdf

Author : Jane McDermid,Anna Hillyar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781857286243

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Midwives of the Revolution by Jane McDermid,Anna Hillyar Pdf

"The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and the ensuing communist regime have often been portrayed as a man's revolution, with women as bystanders or even victims. Midwives of the Revolution examines the powerful contribution made by women to the overthrow of tsarism in 1917 and their importance in the formative years of communism in Russia. Focusing on the masses as well as the high-ranking intelligentsia, Midwives of the Revolution is the first sustained analysis of female involvement in the revolutionary era of Russian history. The authors investigate the role of Bolshevik women and the various forms their participation took. Drawing on the experiences of representative individuals, the authors discuss the important relationship between Bolshevik women and the workers in the turbulent months of 1917. The authors demonstrate that women were an integral part of the revolutionary process and challenge assumptions that they served merely to ignite an essentially masculine revolt. By placing women center stage, without exaggerating their roles, this study enriches our understanding of a momentous event in twentieth-century history."--Publisher description.

Author : Richard Stites
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400843275

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The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia by Richard Stites Pdf

Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all come to life in this absorbing and dramatic account. The author's history begins with the feminist, nihilist, and populist impulses of the 1860s and 1870s, and leads to the social mobilization campaigns of the early Soviet period.

Author : Judy Cox
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608467860

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The Women's Revolution by Judy Cox Pdf

The dominant view of the Russian Revolution of 1917 is of a movement led by prominent men like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. Despite the demonstrations of female workers for ‘bread and herrings’, which sparked the February Revolution, in most historical accounts of this momentous period, women are too often relegated to the footnotes. Judy Cox argues that women were essential to the success of the revolution and to the development of the Bolshevik Party. With biographical sketches of famous female revolutionaries like Alexandra Kollontai and less well-known figures like Elena Stasova and Larissa Reisner, The Women’s Revolution tells the inspiring story of how Russian women threw off centuries of oppression to strike, organize, liberate themselves and ultimately try to build a new world based on equality and freedom for all.

Author : Choi Chatterjee
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822970651

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Celebrating Women by Choi Chatterjee Pdf

Choi Chatterjee analyzes both Bolshevik attitudes towards women and the invented state rituals surrounding Women’s Day to demonstrate the ways these celebrations helped construct gender notions in the Soviet Union.

Author : Marcelline Hutton
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609620684

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Resilient Russian Women in the 1920s & 1930s by Marcelline Hutton Pdf

The stories of Russian educated women, peasants, prisoners, workers, wives, and mothers of the 1920s and 1930s show how work, marriage, family, religion, and even patriotism helped sustain them during harsh times. The Russian Revolution launched an eco-nomic and social upheaval that released peasant women from the control of traditional extended families. It promised urban women equality and created opportunities for employment and higher education. Yet, the revolution did little to eliminate Russian patriarchal culture, which continued to undermine women's social, sexual, eco-nomic, and political conditions. Divorce and abortion became more widespread, but birth control remained limited, and sexual liberation meant greater freedom for men than for women. The transformations that women needed to gain true equality were postponed by the pov-erty of the new state and the political agendas of leaders like Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.

Author : Wendy Z. Goldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521458161

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Women, the State and Revolution by Wendy Z. Goldman Pdf

Focusing on how women, peasants and orphans responded to Bolshevk attempts to remake the family, this text reveals how, by 1936, legislation designed to liberate women had given way to increasingly conservative solutions strengthening traditional family values.

Author : Anna Hillyar,Jane McDermid
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719048389

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Revolutionary Women in Russia, 1870-1917 by Anna Hillyar,Jane McDermid Pdf

This study is available in paperback for the first time. At no time in Northern Ireland's history did so many significant political initiatives occur as between 1972 and 1975, the most violent and polarised years of the region's conflict. Using archival sources, this book analyses the political events and processes that informed the British government's Northern Ireland policy at the time, the complex interactions between Northern Ireland political parties, and the importance of the British-Irish diplomatic relationship to the search for a solution to the Northern Ireland conflict.Focusing on the rise and fall of the power-sharing Executive and the Sunningdale Agreement, the book challenges a number of persistent myths, including those concerning the role of the Irish government in the Northern Ireland conflict. It contests the notion that the years 1972 to 1975 represent a 'lost peace process', but demonstrates that the policies established during this period provided the template for Northern Ireland's current, ongoing peace settlement.

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick,Yuri Slezkine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691190235

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In the Shadow of Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick,Yuri Slezkine Pdf

Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way those events were perceived and reflected in the humble and distant corner of Russia that was the Cossack town of Korenovskaia." What these women witnessed and experienced, and what they were moved to describe, is part of the extraordinary portrait of life in revolutionary Russia presented in this book. A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century, In the Shadow of Revolution brings together the testimony of Soviet citizens and émigrés, intellectuals of aristocratic birth and Soviet milkmaids, housewives and engineers, Bolshevik activists and dedicated opponents of the Soviet regime. In literary memoirs, oral interviews, personal dossiers, public speeches, and letters to the editor, these women document their diverse experience of the upheavals that reshaped Russia in the first half of this century. As is characteristic of twentieth-century Russian women's autobiographies, these life stories take their structure not so much from private events like childbirth or marriage as from great public events. Accordingly the collection is structured around the events these women see as touchstones: the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-20; the switch to the New Economic Policy in the 1920s and collectivization; and the Stalinist society of the 1930s, including the Great Terror. Edited by two preeminent historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, the volume includes introductions that investigate the social historical context of these women's lives as well as the structure of their autobiographical narratives.

Author : Melanie Ilic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230523425

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Women in the Stalin Era by Melanie Ilic Pdf

This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53). It explores both the realities of women's lived experience in the 1930s and 1940s, and the various forms in which womanhood and femininity were represented and constructed in these decades. Women in the Stalin Era challenges the scholarly neglect women's history has suffered at the hands, and pens, of Russian and western historians of the Stalin period.

Author : Leon Trotsky
Publisher : New York : Pathfinder Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000428113

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Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky Pdf

How the October 1917 Russian Revolution, the first victorious socialist revolution, transformed the fight for women's emancipation. Trotsky explains the Bolshevik government's steps to wipe out illiteracy, establish equality in economic and political life, set up child-care centers and public kitche

Author : Barbara Evans Clements
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035372858

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Bolshevik Feminist by Barbara Evans Clements Pdf

Author : Barbara Evans Clements
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253000972

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A History of Women in Russia by Barbara Evans Clements Pdf

The author 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, starting in 900.

Author : Anna Horsbrugh-Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134881338

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Memories of Revolution by Anna Horsbrugh-Porter Pdf

Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the revolution first-hand, this poignant collection of interviews and photographs provides a unique record of life in Russia.