The baba and the comrade : gender and politics in revolutionary Russia /
"How could the baba--traditionally, the 'backward' Russian woman--be mobilized as a 'comrade' in the construction of a new state and society? Drawing on recently opened archives, [the author] explains why the Bolsheviks proved unable and ultimately unwilling to realize their...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©1997.
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| Series: | Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "How could the baba--traditionally, the 'backward' Russian woman--be mobilized as a 'comrade' in the construction of a new state and society? Drawing on recently opened archives, [the author] explains why the Bolsheviks proved unable and ultimately unwilling to realize their ideological notions of a gender-neutral society. Focusing on the creation and activities of the zhenotdel, a special women's section within the Russian Communist Party, [she] reconstructs how notions of gender sameness and difference both facilitated and complicated Bolshevik efforts at state-building during the Civil War and the New Economic Policy"--Page 4 of cover |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([vii], 318 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-309) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585001073 9780585001074 9780253333117 0253333113 |
