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    Women's Glasnost vs. Naglost: Stopping Russian Backlash » Read Now

    by Tatyana Mamonova, Chandra Folsom Niles. 188 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Yeltsin is certainly not the Sakharov of the Democratic Movement. Russian people sarcastically call his burning the Parliament an "October Revolution" of 1993. In Women's Glasnost vs. Naglost we finally hear the voices of the Russian women on what it means to be female and Russian in the tumultuous...
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    Russian Women in Politics and Society » Read Now

    by Wilma Rule, Norma C. Noonan. 190 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    An examination of women's roles in politics and society in the contemporary Russian Federation as it creates a new market economy and democratic course born of a millennium of history and nearly 75 years of authoritarian communist rule.
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    A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History » Read Now

    by Barbara Alpern Engel, Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, Sona Hoisington. 236 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    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 & working class, groups in whose name the revolution was carried out & who sometimes gained unprecedented opportunities after the revolution. Others...
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    Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition » Read Now

    by Valerie Sperling. 303 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This book offers a rich and clearly-written analysis of the women's movement in contemporary Russia. It tells the engaging story of the women's movement's formation and development in a country undergoing a radical economic and political transition from communist rule. Based on extensive interviews...
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    Russian Women's Studies: Essays on Sexism in Soviet Culture » Read Now

    by Tatyana Mamonova, Margaret Maxwell. 163 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
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    Women Under Socialism: Role Definitions of Soviet Women, in Social Forces » Read Now

    by Janet S. Schwartz. 22 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Gail W. Lapidus (eds.), Women in Russia . Stanford: Stanford University...Gail W. Lapidus (eds.), Women in Russia . Stanford: Stanford University...Gail W. Lapidus (eds.)...
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    Women and Russian Culture: Projections and Self- Perceptions » Read Now

    by Rosalind Marsh. 300 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This collection of essays by leading western and Russian specialists contains new insights and updates previous research into the role of women in Russian culture in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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    Russian Peasant Women » Read Now

    by Beatrice Farnsworth, Lynne Viola. 304 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...no full-length history of Russian peasant women in either Russian or English...Glickman points out, most women workers in Russian factories began life as peasants...Gail W...
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    Eleven Years in Soviet Prison Camps » Read Now

    by Elinor Lipper. 312 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...me, and six women began talking...understand Russian; then I realized...I sat down in a corner...this right to women-Soviet Russia. In 1935 abortion...thousands of women...
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    Present Imperfect: Stories by Russian Women » Read Now

    by Ayesha Kagal, Natasha Perova. 202 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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    Women Writers in Russian Literature » Read Now

    by Toby W. Clyman, Diana Greene. 273 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ..."For all readers interested in the fabric of women's literature and women in a literary society, this book represents the highest achievement to date in Russian studies." Choice
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    Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition » Read Now

    by Rick Wilford, Robert L. Miller. 214 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism asks whether societies caught in political or social transition provide new opportunities for women, or instead, create new burdens and obstacles for them. Using contemporary case-studies, each author looks at the interaction of gender ethnicity and class in a...
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    Gender, Generation and Identity in Contemporary Russia » Read Now

    by Hilary Pilkington. 306 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This book explores the lives and expectations of young women in the new Russia, looking at the enormous changes that the new social and economic environment have brought. The authors draw on the growing literature on gender and generation in the West which has arisen as a result of the recognition...
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    Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements » Read Now

    by Norma Corigliano Noonan, Carol Nechemias. 399 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    A comprehensive resource profiling individuals and organizations associated with Russian women's movements from the early 19th century to the post-Soviet era. Contributions by approximately fifty authors from the United States, Russia, Europe, and Canada focus upon the struggle of women to change...

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