Details

Subject(s)

• Rural women—Soviet Union—History [Browse]
• Rural women—Russia (Federation)—History [Browse]
• Rural women—Soviet Union—Social conditions [Browse]
• Rural women—Russia (Federation)—Social conditions [Browse]
• Women peasants—Soviet Union—History [Browse]
• Women peasants—Russia (Federation)—History [Browse]
• Women—Soviet Union—Social conditions [Browse]
• Women—Russia (Federation)—Social conditions [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Rural conditions [Browse]
• Russia (Federation)—Rural conditions [Browse]

Related name

• Mukhina, Irina, 1979- [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe. [More in this series]

Summary note

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; 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 Khrushchev

Notes

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Employment patterns among rural women; 1 Women's work; 2 Unskilled labor in the countryside; 3 Female mechanics and machine operators; 4 Women at the animal wards; 5 Women as collective farm leaders and agricultural specialists; 6 Rural intelligentsia; 7 Migration to cities and the position of newcomers; Part II: Private life; 8 The politics of private life: The evolution and transformation of the Soviet Family Code; 9 Marriages; 10 Conflicts and divorces; 11 Domostroi
• 12 Alcoholism in the countryside13 The female face of the criminal world; 14 Women of the oldest profession; 15 Religion; 16 Triple-burden lifestyle; 17 Household chores; 18 The special environment of the village life; 19 Protection of childhood and motherhood in the countryside; 20 Abortions; Conclusions; Notes; Index

ISBN

• 1-136-93713-7
• 1-282-88628-2
• 9786612886287
• 0-203-84684-2

OCLC

• 670411804
• 671806123

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203846841

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