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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]

Notes

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• pt. 1. Employment patterns among rural women
• Unskilled labor in the countryside
• Female mechanics and machines operators
• Women at the animal wards
• Women as collective farm leaders and agricultural specialists
• Rural intelligentsia
• Migration to cities and the position of newcomers
• pt. 2. Private life
• The politics of private life : the evolution and transformation of the Soviet Family Code
• Marriages
• Conflicts and divorces
• Domostroi
• Alcoholism in the countryside
• The female face of the criminal world
• Women of the oldest profession
• Religion
• Triple-burden lifestyle
• Household chores
• The special environment of the village life
• Protection of childhood and motherhood in the countryside
• Abortions.

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ISBN

• 9780415551120 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415551129 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780203846841 (ebook)
• 0203846842 (ebook)

LCCN

2010021317

OCLC

436030429

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