Life Stories of Soviet Women
Title | Life Stories of Soviet Women PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Ilic |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 2013-08-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135094713 |
This book provides a rich picture of what everyday life was like for women in Soviet times by presenting the life stories of eight women who were born in the interwar period. The life stories are told through interviews with the women who were well educated and well placed in Soviet society, often in elite positions, and therefore well able to observe and articulate the wider conditions for Soviet women besides their own personal circumstances. The interviews, which are edited and preceded by a full introduction setting the context, touch on a wide variety of issues: key events in Soviet history; religion and nationalities policies; and women’s everyday experiences of life in the Soviet Union – growing up and going to school; education; falling in love and getting married; giving birth and starting a family; housework and paid employment; travel; leisure and culture; and remembering the past.
Life Stories of Soviet Women
Title | Life Stories of Soviet Women PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Ilic |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 343 |
Release | 2013-08-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135094780 |
This book provides a rich picture of what everyday life was like for women in Soviet times by presenting the life stories of eight women who were born in the interwar period. The life stories are told through interviews with the women who were well educated and well placed in Soviet society, often in elite positions, and therefore well able to observe and articulate the wider conditions for Soviet women besides their own personal circumstances. The interviews, which are edited and preceded by a full introduction setting the context, touch on a wide variety of issues: key events in Soviet history; religion and nationalities policies; and women’s everyday experiences of life in the Soviet Union – growing up and going to school; education; falling in love and getting married; giving birth and starting a family; housework and paid employment; travel; leisure and culture; and remembering the past.
The Unwomanly Face of War
Title | The Unwomanly Face of War PDF eBook |
Author | Светлана Алексиевич |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 385 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0399588728 |
"Originally published in Russian as U voiny--ne zhenskoe lietiso by Mastatskaya Litaratura, Minsk, in 1985. Originally published in English as War's unwomanly face by Progress Publishers, Moscow, in 1988"--Title page verso.
Life Stories of Soviet Women
Title | Life Stories of Soviet Women PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Ilič |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780203796481 |
This book provides a rich picture of what everyday life was like for women in Soviet times by presenting the life stories of eight women who were born in the interwar period. The life stories are told through interviews with the women who were well educated and well placed in Soviet society, often in elite positions, and therefore well able to observe and articulate the wider conditions for Soviet women besides their own personal circumstances. The interviews, which are edited and preceded by a full introduction setting the context, touch on a wide variety of issues: key events in Soviet history; religion and nationalities policies; and women's everyday experiences of life in the Soviet Union - growing up and going to school; education; falling in love and getting married; giving birth and starting a family; housework and paid employment; travel; leisure and culture; and remembering the past.
Women, the State and Revolution
Title | Women, the State and Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Z. Goldman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 1993-11-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521458160 |
Focusing on how women, peasants and orphans responded to Bolshevk attempts to remake the family, this text reveals how, by 1936, legislation designed to liberate women had given way to increasingly conservative solutions strengthening traditional family values.
Soviet Women – Everyday Lives
Title | Soviet Women – Everyday Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie Ilic |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 349 |
Release | 2020-02-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000033902 |
Based on an extensive reading of a broad range of women’s accounts of their lives in the Soviet Union, this book focuses on many hidden aspects of Soviet women’s everyday lives, thereby revealing a great deal about how the Soviet Union operated on a day-to-day basis and about the place of the individual within it. Including testimony from both celebrated literary and cultural figures and from many ordinary people, and from both enthusiastic supporters of the regime and dissidents, the book considers women’s daily routines, attitudes and behaviours. It highlights some of the hidden inequalities of an ostensibly egalitarian society, and considers many wider questions, including how extensive was the ‘reach’ of the Soviet regime; how ‘modern’ was it; how far were there continuities after 1917 between the new Bolshevik regime and Russia’s imperial past; and how homogenous and how mobile was Soviet society?
Night Witches
Title | Night Witches PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Myles |
Publisher | Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
In 1941, as Nazi hordes swept east into the Soviet Union, a desperte call went out for women to join the Russian air force. The result--three entire regiments of women pilots and bombers--was a phenomenon unmatched in World II. Through interviews with these courageous pilots, the author uncovers their story. Soon to be a major motion picture.