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Breaking the Ties that Bound

The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

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Breaking the Ties that Bound

The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

Looks at how rapid industrialization and urbanization in the late 1800s changed marital relations, domesticity, and intimate life in imperial Russia.

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0801449510

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Women in Russia, 1700-2000

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

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Women in Russia, 1700-2000

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Cambridge University Press

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0521003180

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9780521003186

Mothers and Daughters

Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

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Mothers and Daughters

Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

The first psychosocial study of the female intelligentsia in Russia, Mothers and Daughters explains how and why women radicals of the nineteenth century diverged from their male counterparts, describes the forces that led women to rebel, and discusses their mixed legacy to future generations. Barbara Alpern Engel examines her subject on three levels: the traditional family system; early feminism and women's rebellion against the family; and the causes and consequences of women's revolutionary activity. She describes the impact this revolt had on the family and the lives of radical women and the movement's role in inspiring a new feminine mythology. Throughout, Engel brings nineteenth-century women to life, humanizing history as she presents a case study of how the personal became political in a time and place very different from our own." --Book Jacket.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810117401

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9780810117402

A History of Women in Russia

From Earliest Times to the Present

By: Barbara Evans Clements

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A History of Women in Russia

From Earliest Times to the Present

By: Barbara Evans Clements

The author traces the major developments in the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of the nation. Sketching lived experiences across the centuries, she demonstrates the key roles that women played in shaping Russia's political, economic, social, and cultural development for over a millennium, starting in 900.

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Indiana University Press

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0253000971

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9780253000972

Women in Russia, 1700-2000

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

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Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia

From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

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Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia

From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

Barbara Alpern Engel's Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is the first book to explore the intricacies of domestic life in Russia across the modern period. Surveying the period from 1700 right up to the present day, the book explores the marital and domestic arrangements of Russians at multiple levels of society and the impact of broader historical developments, including war and revolution, upon them. It also traces the evolution of marriage, household and home as institutions over three centuries, whilst also highlighting the inter-relationship between public policy and private life, in what is a wholly original historical assessment of domesticity in modern Russia. In the process, the author expertly synthesizes the key works, arguments and discussions in the field, mapping out the historiographical landscape of this compelling aspect of Russian social history. Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is crucial reading for any student or scholar of modern Russian history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350014494

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9781350014497

Between the Fields and the City

Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

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Between the Fields and the City

Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

Charts the personal dimensions of economic social change by examining the migration of Russian peasant women's from the village to the city in the years between 1861 and the outbreak of World War I.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521566215

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Breaking the Ties That Bound

The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

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Breaking the Ties That Bound

The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural, and political consequences of these dramatic changes, focusing on their impact on intimate life and expectations and the resulting challenges to the traditional, patriarchal family order, the cornerstone of Russia's authoritarian political and religious regime. The widely perceived "marriage crisis" had far-reaching legal, institutional, and political ramifications. In Breaking the Ties That Bound, Engel draws on exceptionally rich archival documentation—in particular, on petitions for marital separation and the materials generated by the ensuing investigations—to explore changing notions of marital relations, domesticity, childrearing, and intimate life among ordinary men and women in imperial Russia. Engel illustrates with unparalleled vividness the human consequences of the marriage crisis. Her research reveals in myriad ways that the new and more individualistic values of the capitalist marketplace and commercial culture challenged traditional definitions of gender roles and encouraged the self-creation of new social identities. Engel captures the intimate experiences of women and men of the lower and middling classes in their own words, documenting instances not only of physical, mental, and emotional abuse but also of resistance and independence. These changes challenged Russia's rigid political order, forcing a range of state agents, up to and including those who spoke directly in the name of the tsar, to rethink traditional understandings of gender norms and family law. This remarkable social history is thus also a contribution to our understanding of the deepening political crisis of autocracy.

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Cornell University Press

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0801460697

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9780801460692

A Revolution Of Their Own

Voices Of Women In Soviet History

By: Barbara Engel

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A Revolution Of Their Own

Voices Of Women In Soviet History

By: Barbara Engel

The stories of these eight Russian women offer an extremely rare perspective into personal life in the Soviet era. Some were from the poor peasantry and working class, groups in whose name the revolution was carried out and who sometimes gained unprecedented opportunities after the revolution. Others, born to "misfortune" as the daughters of nobles

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Routledge

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0429971176

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9780429971174

Bolshevik Women

By: Barbara Evans Clements

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Bolshevik Women

By: Barbara Evans Clements

Bolshevik Women is a history of the women who joined the Soviet Communist Party before 1921. The book examines the reasons these women became revolutionaries, the work they did in the underground before 1917, their participation in the revolution and civil war, and their service in the building of the USSR. Drawing on a database of more than five hundred individuals as well as on intensive research into the lives of the most prominent female Bolsheviks, the study argues that women were important members of the Communist Party at its lower levels during its formative years. They were lieutenants, printing leaflets, speaking to crowds, and running party operations in the cities. They also created one of the most remarkable efforts to emancipate women from traditional society of the twentieth century. This book traces their fascinating lives from the earliest years of the revolutionary movement through to their old age in the time of Khrushchev and Brezhnev.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521599202

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Mothers and Daughters

Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

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Women of the Intelligentsia in Nineteenth-Century Russia

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Northwestern University Press

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A History of Women in Russia

From Earliest Times to the Present

By: Barbara Evans Clements

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From Earliest Times to the Present

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Indiana University Press

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Friendship

A History

By: Barbara Caine

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Friendship

A History

By: Barbara Caine

There has been an increasing interest in the meaning and importance of friendship in recent years, particularly in the West. However, the history of friendship, and the ways in which it has changed over time, have rarely been examined. Friendship: A History traces the development of friendship in Europe from the Hellenistic period to today. The book brings together a range of essays that examine the language of friendship and its significance in terms of ethics, social institutions, religious organizations and political alliances. The essays study the works of classical and contemporary authors to explore the role of friendship in Western philosophy. Ranging from renaissance friendships to Christian and secular friendships and from women’s writing to the role of class and sex in friendships, Friendship: A History will be invaluable to students and scholars of social history.

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A Revolution Of Their Own

Voices Of Women In Soviet History

By: Barbara Engel

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Voices Of Women In Soviet History

By: Barbara Engel

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0429982259

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Russia in World History

By: Barbara Alpern Engel,Janet Martin

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Russia in World History

By: Barbara Alpern Engel,Janet Martin

A lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history from its origins to the present, this volume concisely describes how its peoples overcame constant challenges, including devastating foreign invasions, to become an ethnically and religiously diverse land empire, the first communist society, and a major world power.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199947899

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Marriage, Household, and Home in Modern Russia

From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

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From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Russia in World History

By: Barbara Alpern Engel,Janet Martin

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Russia in World History

By: Barbara Alpern Engel,Janet Martin

This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history and the striking changes that characterize its story. Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin show how Russia's peoples met the constant challenges posed by geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions, and rose to become the world's second largest land empire. The book describes the circumstances that led to the world's first communist society in 1917, and traces the global consequences of Russia's long confrontation with the United States, which took place virtually everywhere and for decades provided a model for societies seeking development independent of capitalism. This book also brings the story of Russia's arduous and costly climb to great power to a personal level through the stories of individual women and men-leading figures who played pivotal roles as well as less prominent individuals from a range of social backgrounds whose voices illuminate the human consequences of sweeping historical change. As was and is true of Russia itself, this story encompasses a wide variety of ethnicities, peoples who became part of the Russian empire and suffered or benefited from its leaders' efforts to meld a multiethnic polity into a coherent political entity. The book examines how Russia served as a conduit for people, ideas, and commodities flowing between east and west, north and south, and absorbed and adapted influences from both Europe and Asia and how it came to play an increasingly important role on a regional and, ultimately, global scale"--

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Oxford University Press

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0199947872

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Between the Fields and the City

Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

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Between the Fields and the City

Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914

By: Barbara Alpern Engel

Charts the personal dimensions of economic social change by examining the migration of Russian peasant women's from the village to the city in the years between 1861 and the outbreak of World War I.

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