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

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691019495
• ISBN13: 9780691019499
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Russian Women and Revolutions

I can not recommend this book enough! My daughter liked it so much that she gave it to me to read. I, in turn, liked it so much that I have purchased numerous copies for family members and friends. It's filled with amazing personal chronicles of various women living through the numerous changes in government in Russia. How some of them survived, I'll never know. It's fascinating and horrendous and always moving.