Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia.
This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010
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| Series: | Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive overview of regulations concerning rural women: their employment patterns; marriages, divorces and family life; and, issues with health and raising children. Rural lives in the Soviet Union were often dramatically different from the common narrative of the Soviet history, and even during the Khrushch. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780203846841 0203846842 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
