Barbara Alpern Engel is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Women in Russia: 1700-2000 , Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914 , and Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia and coeditor of A Revolution of Their Own: Russian Women Remember Their Lives in the Twentieth Century , Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation , and Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar .