Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia

By Barbara Alpern Engel and Barbara Alpern Engle

Book Overview

Professor Engel presents a study of the social and cultural origins of female radicalism in nineteenth-century Russia. She examines the forces that prompted hundreds of women to rebel against their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810117401
• ISBN13: 9780810117402
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Mothers and Daughters: Women of the Intelligenstia in Nineteenth-Century Russia

This book is a great examination of the role of women in revolutionary Russia and of their need for liberation and how they brought that about.