Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Better halves’? Representations of women in Russian urban popular entertainments, 1870-1910
- 2 The Silver Age: highpoint for women?
- 3 Women pharmacists in Russia before World War I: women's emancipation, feminism, professionalization, nationalism and class conflict
- 4 Women's rights, civil rights and the debate over citizenship in the 1905 Revolution
- 5 Laying the foundations of democracy in Russia: E. D. Kuskova's contribution, February–October 1917
- 6 Mariia L. Bochkareva and the Russian amazons of 1917
- 7 Russian women writers: an overview. Post-revolutionary dispersion and adjustment
- 8 Victim or villain? Prostitution in post-revolutionary Russia
- 9 Young women and perestroika
- 10 Glasnost and the woman question
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Better halves’? Representations of women in Russian urban popular entertainments, 1870-1910
- 2 The Silver Age: highpoint for women?
- 3 Women pharmacists in Russia before World War I: women's emancipation, feminism, professionalization, nationalism and class conflict
- 4 Women's rights, civil rights and the debate over citizenship in the 1905 Revolution
- 5 Laying the foundations of democracy in Russia: E. D. Kuskova's contribution, February–October 1917
- 6 Mariia L. Bochkareva and the Russian amazons of 1917
- 7 Russian women writers: an overview. Post-revolutionary dispersion and adjustment
- 8 Victim or villain? Prostitution in post-revolutionary Russia
- 9 Young women and perestroika
- 10 Glasnost and the woman question
- Index
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- Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union , pp. 227 - 233Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992