A Revolution Of Their Own
eBook - ePub

A Revolution Of Their Own

Voices Of Women In Soviet History

  1. 252 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Revolution Of Their Own

Voices Of Women In Soviet History

About this book

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 nobles

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Index

  1. Abortion, 4, 215
    1. back-alley, 33–34
    2. outlawed (1936), 9, 11, 50, 172–173
  2. All-Union Radio, 147
  3. Amenorrhea, 198
  4. Antichrist, 19, 25–26
  5. Apukhtin, Aleksei Nikolaevich, 54
  6. Aragon, Louis, 48
  7. Armand, Inessa, 69
  1. Bednota, 31(n13), 35, 41
  2. Berezhnaia, Antonina Aleksandrovna, 101, 102(photo), 107(photo), 227
    1. children, 105
    2. in children’s home, 5, 102–103, 105, 106, 114–115
    3. in CPSU, 103, 107, 108, 113
    4. education, 8, 103, 105, 106–107, 114–116
    5. as engineer, 103–104, 108–109
    6. grandchildren, 105
    7. in industrial labor force, 103, 104, 108
    8. inventions, 111
    9. in Komsomol, 103, 106
    10. landowning nobility background, 101, 102, 104–106, 113–114
    11. marriages, 105, 106
    12. in metallurgy industry, 103–104, 107–111
    13. mother and sisters, 116
    14. on Russia today, 113
  3. Birth control, 34
  4. Blue Blouse workers’ theater, 103, 106
  5. Bolsheviks (Reds), 3–4, 5–6, 89–90, 124, 161, 162, 163
    1. attitudes toward, 20, 25
    2. and infant mortality, 66(n25)
    3. and landed nobility, 101–102
    4. and religion, 85
    5. and women’s emancipation, 2, 4, 49
    6. See also Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  6. Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Ekaterina, 54
  7. Brezhnev, Leo...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Glossary
  8. Introduction
  9. Living Someone Else’s Life
  10. Taking Advantage of New Opportunities
  11. Daughter of a Village Priest
  12. Overcoming an “Incorrect” Birth
  13. A Life in a Peasant Village
  14. From Peasant to Journalist
  15. Under a Sword of Damocles
  16. Four Years as a Frontline Physician
  17. Afterword: Evaluating the Soviet Experience
  18. On Choices, Methods, and Silences
  19. Selected Bibliography
  20. Index