In the Shadow of Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (576 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691019495 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Pat said Russian Women and Revolutions. I can not recommend this book enough! My daughter liked it so much that she gave it to me to read. I, in turn, liked it so much that I have purchased numerous copies for family members and friends. It's filled with amazing personal chronicles of various women living through the numerous changes in government in Russia. How some of them survived, I'll never know. It's fascinating and horrendous and always moving.. Amazing book! SARAH K This is an absolutely great read that is both riveting and heartbreaking. The collection of stories was originally researched and collected. I highly recommend to anyone who is interested in the early years of the USSR and the effect on many class members of Soviet society.. "Five Stars" according to ROBERT E. BAYR. Amazing inside look at the revolution. A must read for anyone interested in Russian history.
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.. 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. 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
. Fitzpatrick (Everyday Stalinism) and Slezkine (Arctic Mirrors) present ordinary women's testimonies of personal highs and lows amid momentous public events: the 1917 Revolution, the horrors of civil war, early construction of Soviet society and the chaos of political purges. In Part II, Paraskeva Ivanova's 1926 letter declares she is leaving the Communist Party because party men have sexually exploited her in the name of creating "new forms of everyday life" to replace "bourgeois morality." Pa