American girls in red Russia : chasing the Soviet dream /

If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or '30s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? T...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mickenberg, Julia L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Online Access:CONNECT

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Ii 4500
001 in00006381938
006 m o d
007 cr cnu---unuuu
008 170327t20172017ilu ob 001 0 eng d
005 20230824143703.8
010 |a  2016041702 
019 |a 1113474061  |a 1190691724  |a 1193552895 
020 |a 9780226256269  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |a 022625626X  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |z 9780226256122 
020 |z 022625612X 
035 |a 1WRLDSHRocn979417545 
035 |a (OCoLC)979417545  |z (OCoLC)1113474061  |z (OCoLC)1190691724  |z (OCoLC)1193552895 
037 |a 1003343  |b MIL 
037 |a CD1BF684-16CF-4276-A17B-5BE1D8972648  |b OverDrive, Inc.  |n http://www.overdrive.com 
040 |a N$T  |b eng  |e rda  |e pn  |c N$T  |d N$T  |d IDEBK  |d EBLCP  |d YDX  |d MERUC  |d CNCGM  |d CCO  |d OCL  |d CUS  |d OCLCQ  |d UPM  |d TEFOD  |d OCLCQ  |d U3W  |d UHL  |d OCLCQ  |d EZ9  |d DEGRU  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d SFB 
043 |a e-ur--- 
049 |a TXMM 
050 4 |a DK34.A45  |b M54 2017eb 
082 0 4 |a 305.420947  |2 23 
100 1 |a Mickenberg, Julia L.,  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a American girls in red Russia :  |b chasing the Soviet dream /  |c Julia L. Mickenberg. 
264 1 |a Chicago :  |b The University of Chicago Press,  |c 2017. 
264 4 |c ©2017 
300 |a 1 online resource 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- American girls in red Russia -- Tender revolutionaries and child savers -- Dreaming in red: reformers, rebels, and a revolutionary babushka, 1905 -- 1919 -- Child savers and child saviors, 1919 -- 1925 -- Living and working in the new Russia: from Kuzbas to Moscow -- "A new Pennsylvania": seeking home in Siberia, 1922 -- 1926 -- "Eyes on Russia": gal reporters on the Moscow News -- Performing revolution -- Dancing revolution -- Black and white "and yellow" in red: performing race in Russia -- Trials, tribulations, and battles -- Heroines and heretics on the Russian front -- Epilogue. Red spy queens? 
520 8 |a If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or '30s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia Mickenberg uncovers in 'American Girls in Red Russia', there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though many more were curious about the "Soviet experiment." But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, sometimes by the mundane realities, others by ugly truths too horrifying to even contemplate. Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia, which appeared to be the very embodiment of modern ideas and ways of living. American women saw in Russia the hope for a new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Russian women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare. 
588 0 |a Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 27, 2017). 
500 |a OAPEN Library  |5 TMurS 
650 0 |a Americans  |z Soviet Union  |x History. 
650 0 |a Women  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Women  |z Soviet Union  |x History. 
650 0 |a Women and socialism  |z Soviet Union. 
650 0 |a Feminism  |z Soviet Union. 
648 7 |a 1900-1999  |2 fast 
655 7 |a History.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 
730 0 |a WORLDSHARE SUB RECORDS 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Mickenberg, Julia L.  |t American girls in red Russia.  |d Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017  |z 9780226256122  |w (DLC) 2016041702  |w (OCoLC)958422216 
856 4 0 |u https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63440  |z CONNECT  |3 Open Access Publishing in European Networks  |t 0 
949 |a ho0 
994 |a 92  |b TXM 
998 |a wi  |d z 
999 f f |s 6400c533-516a-447e-b6d6-0f76526ba6d1  |i ff5576a9-5c10-4984-b70a-d92b40bc379e  |t 0 
952 f f |a Middle Tennessee State University  |b Main  |c James E. Walker Library  |d Electronic Resources  |t 0  |e DK34.A45 M54 2017eb  |h Library of Congress classification