A Revolution Of Their Own: Voices Of Women In Soviet History [Hardcover]

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 and working class, groups in whose name the revolution was carried out and who sometimes gained unprecedented opportunities after the revolution. Others, born to ?misfortune? as the daughters of noblesIntroduction, Living Someone Else's Life, Taking Advantage of New Opportunities, Daughter of a Village Priest, Overcoming an Incorrect Birth, A Life in a Peasant Village, From Peasant to Journalist, Under a Sword of Damocles, Four Years as a Frontline Physician, Afterword: Evaluating the Soviet Experience, On Choices, Methods, and SilencesA Revolution of Their Own illuminates the harsh reality of women's daily lives in the Soviet Union as no previous book has done covering the stories of eight Russian women, offering an extremely rare perspective into personal life in the Soviet era.Barbara Alpern Engel is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck is visiting fellow at the Center for Russian, Central, and East European Studies, Rutgers University.USCopyright ? 1998 Taylor & Francis