In the Shadow of Revolution Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War

Name: In the Shadow of Revolution Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War
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ISBN: 9780691019499

ISBN-10: 0691019495

ISBN-13: 9780691019499

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sheila Fitzpatrick, Yuri Slezkine

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Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way those events were perceived and reflected in the humble and distant corner of Russia that was the Cossack town of Korenovskaia." What these women witnessed and experienced, and what they were moved to describe, is part of the extraordinary portrait of life in revolutionary Russia presented in this book. A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century, In the Shadow of Revolution brings together the…

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List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.386



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Lives and Times



Lives as Tales




Civil War as a Way of Life (1917-1920)



My Reminiscences (1)




In 1917




Where Laughter Is Never Heard




A Mother's Story




The Road to Exile




Autobiography




Things Seen and Suffered




Cavalry Boy




Recollections




The Way of Bitterness




Toward "New Forms of Life" (The 1920s)



My Life




What Am I to Do?




My Reminiscences (2)




Why I Do Not Belong in the Party




Arina's Children




Sent by the Komsomol




Peasant Narratives (1)




A Worker's Life




Students in the First Five-Year Plan




Building the City of Youth




A Belomor Confession




The Green Lamp




"Life Has Become Merrier" (The 1930s)



The Most Important Thing




Peasant Narratives (2)




We Were Fighting for an Idea!




Speeches by Stakhanovites




A Cross-Examination




A Sea Captain's Story




Farewell to the Komsomol




Autobiography




Speeches by Stakhanovites' Wives




A Family Chronicle




The Story of My Life




Memoirs of an Engineer




Engineers' Wives




My Reminiscences (3)



Glossary


Index