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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Stites |
| ISBN: | 0691052549 9780691052540 0691100586 9780691100586 |
| OCLC Number: | 3327054 |
| Description: | xx, 464 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. On the eve. 1. Women and the Russian tradition ---- Part II. The woman question 1855-1881. 2. The birth of the woman question --- 3. The feminist response --- 4. The nihilist response --- 5. The radical response ---- Part III. The women's movement 1881-1917. 6. The new generation --- 7. The feminist movement --- 8. The socialist women's movement --- 9. Women against women ---- Part IV. Women's liberation. 10. Bolshevik liberation --- 11. The sexual revolution --- 12. The revolution and women ---- Appendix: note on Kollontai's Social bases of the woman question (1909). |
| Responsibility: | Richard Stites. |
Abstract:
"This book offers a brilliant treatment of many facets of its subject, but it also ends up being, for the reader, one of the finest general histories to be found, of these crucial years in Russian history. The source material is unbelievably detailed, and clearly cited on each page. Not only that, the writing is, at many points, the boldest, clearest I've almost ever found in the Academy. The author's opinions, summaries, insights easily spill out of the historical constructions. The presence of the author's psyche (he never hides behind his quotes) means the material is contoured. The reader gets, not only huge amounts of information, but an authorial presence, as company, that is often daring, bold, insightful, revelatory. And one stylistic point made me especially happy: when Stites uses metaphors to explain history, these are revelatory, and their internal implications are followed through in the prose."--Www.goodreads.com (Feb. 2, 2011.).
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