Russian Peasant Women

Name: Russian Peasant Women
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ISBN: 9780195066944

ISBN-10: 0195066944

ISBN-13: 9780195066944

Edition: 1992

Authors: Beatrice Farnsworth, Lynne Viola

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Until recent years, the great majority of the Russian population lived and worked in rural areas. This book provides an overview of the forces - economic, social, and ideological - that shaped and transformed Russian peasant society, especially the position of women in it, from the early nineteenth century to the present. The first half of the book deals with prerevolutionary Russia, the second with Soviet Russia. Topics include family life in the countryside, women's work, childbirth and midwifery, religion, the experience of peasant women during the Revolution and collectivization, and the condition of women in the Soviet Union in recent years. The work will be useful not only in Russian…

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/2/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.056




Peasant Women Before the Revolution



The Peasant Way of Life



Temptress or Virgin? The Precarious Sexual Position of Women in Postemancipation Ukrainian Peasant Society



Peasant Women and Their Work



Razdel: The Peasant Family Divided



The Litigious Daughter-in-Law: Family Relations in Rural Russia in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century



Childbirth and Culture: Midwifery in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Countryside



To Save Oneself: Russian Peasant Women and the Development of Women's Religious Communities in Prerevolutionary Russia



Peasant Women After the Revolution



Village Women Experience the Revolution



Rural Women and the Law: Divorce and Property Rights in the 1920s



Bab'i Bunty and Peasant Women's Protest During Collectivization



Women in the Soviet Countryside on the Eve of World War II, 1935-1940



The Role of Women in Soviet Agriculture



Soviet Rural Women: Employment and Family Life



Rural Women and Glasnost