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1 online resource |
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Introduction. Lives and times / Sheila Fitzpatrick ; Lives as tales / Yuri Slezkine -- Part I. Civil war as a way of life (1917-1920) My reminiscences (1) / Ekaterina Olitskaia ; In 1917 / Anna Litveiko ; Where laughter is never heard / P.E. Melgunova-Stepanova ; A mother's story / Anna Andzhievskaia ; The road to exile / Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia ; Autobiography / Nadezhda Krupskaia ; Things seen and suffered / Tatiana Varsher ; Cavalry boy / Zinaida Patrikeeva ; Recollections / Irina Elenevskaia ; The way of bitterness / Sofia Volkonskaia -- Part II. Toward "new forms of life" (The 1920s) My life / Agrippina Korevanova ; What am I to do? / Anonymous ; My reminiscences (2) / Ekaterina Olitskaia ; Why I do not belong in the party / Paraskeva Ivanova ; Arina's children / Maria Belskaia ; Sent by the Komsomol / Antonina Solovieva ; Peasant narratives (1) / Nenila Bazeleva et al. ; A worker's life / Anna Balashova ; Students in the first Five-year plan / Valentina Bogdan ; Building the city of youth / Alla Kiparenko ; A Belomor confession / Anna Iankovskaia ; The green lamp / Lidia Libedinskaia -- Part III. "Life has become merrier" (The 1930s) The most important thing / Pasha Angelina ; Peasant narratives (2) / Efrosinia Kislova et al. ; We were fighting for an idea! / Fruma Treivas ; Speeches by Stakhanovites / N.I. Slavnikova et al. ; A cross-examination / Ulianova ; A sea captain's story / Anna Shchetinina ; Farewell to the Komsomol / Kh. Khuttonen ; Autobiography / Anastasia Plotnikova ; Speeches by Stakhanovites' wives / A.V. Vlasovskaia et al. ; A family chronicle / Inna Shikheeva-Gaister ; The story of my life / Evdokia Maslennikova ; Memoirs of an engineer / Valentina Bogdan ; Engineers' wives / Frida Troib et al. ; My reminiscences (3) / Ekaterina Olitskaia |
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Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way those events were perceived and reflected in the humble and distant corner of Russia that was the Cossack town of Korenovskaia." What these women witnessed and experienced, and what they were moved to describe, is part of the extraordinary portrait of life in revolutionary Russia presented in this book. A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century, In the Shadow of Revolution brings together the testimony of Soviet citizens and émigrés, intellectuals of aristocratic birth and Soviet milkmaids, housewives and engineers, Bolshevik activists and dedicated opponents of the Soviet regime. 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 of twentieth-century Russian women's autobiographies, these life stories take their structure not so much from private events like childbirth or marriage as from great public events. 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. 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Börngen, ... gnd |
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Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava gnd |
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Women -- Soviet Union -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Women
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Frau
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Vrouwen.
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Femmes -- URSS -- Biographies.
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125811
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125814
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Soviet Union
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Sowjetunion
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URSS -- 1917-1936.
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URSS -- 1925-1953.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fitzpatrick, Sheila, editor.
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Slezkine, Yuri, 1956- editor, translator.
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| ISBN |
9780691190235 |
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0691190232 |
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