Russian Peasant Women

by Beatrice Farnsworth

Book Overview

Bringing together recent scholarship on Russian peasant women's history from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book covers such topics as family life in the countryside, woman's work, her sexuality, her marital and family positions, her experience of the Bolshevik Revolution, and her role in collectivization of agriculture from its onset in the Stalin years through the Gorbachev era. Placing the peasant woman within the context of the peasant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195066944
• ISBN13: 9780195066944
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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Very interesting, read about one third, will update this review when I am finished.