Russia's Women (English, Barbara Evans Clements | Barbara Alpern Engel | Christine D. Worobec)

About the Book

By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women--and women's reactions to these efforts--have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional assumptions by integrating women into the Russian past. Using recent advances in the study of gender, the family, class, and the status of women, the auth…

ISBN: 9780520070240