ISBN:
9780582279865
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (247 p)
Series Statement:
Women And Men In History
Parallel Title:
Print version Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930 : A Study in Continuity Through Change
DDC:
305.40994
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This study considers the impact of industrialisation, revolution and world war on women''s working lives in Russia. Unlike existing studies this new text looks at women from all social classes. In the process the authors reveal how the stereotypical portrayal of Russian women''s work as a struggle of endurance and sacrifice distorts and oversimplifies the reality of their experience between 1880 and 1930
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; 1. To Labour, to Bear and to Endure: The Lot of the Russian Woman Worker?; Women, work and family; Service to the people; Gender and the development of the working class; Gender, industrialisation and urbanisation; Part One: Society, Politics and the Economy, 1880-1914; 2. Women in Socety and Economy before the First World War; Life on the land and the peasant economy; Education and work; Medicine and women; Women workers in the city
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Women and Politics before the First World WarFrom ''small deeds'' to revolution: the origins of female involvement in the revolutionary movement; Women and the 1905 revolution; From revolution to world war; Part Two: From World War to the New Society, 1914-1930; 4. From World War to Revolution; Women, work and the First World War; International Women''s Day and the collapse of tsarism; Between the two revolutions; Women and the October revolution; 5. Working Women, Civil War and the New Society, 1918-1930; Women and the ABC of Communism; Women and the civil war, 1918-1920
Description / Table of Contents:
Women and the New Economic PolicyEpilogue; Glossary; Bibliography; Map: The Russian Empire, 1914; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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