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A review essay on books by: Mary Buckley (Ed), Perestroika and Soviet Women (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1992); Linda Edmondson (Ed), Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1992); R. C. Elwood, Inessa Armand: Revolutionary and Feminist (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1992); Beatrice Farnsworth & Lynne Viola (Eds), Russian Peasant Women (New York & Oxford: Oxford U Press, 1992); & Barbara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel, & Christine D. Worobec (Eds), Russia's Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation (Berkeley, Los Angeles, & Oxford: U of California Press, 1991 [see listings in IRPS No. 79]). These five books are heartening examples of the growth of new scholarship about women in Russia & the former Soviet Union. Edmondson's collection of ten essays by contemporary British, US, & Australian scholars examines Russian women of the intelligentsia from 1870-1991. Viola & Farnsworth bring together essays about peasant women by leading Western scholars that cover a range of issues, from Mary Matossian's evocative description of everyday peasant life on the eve of Emancipation to an article on rural women & glasnost. Buckley's collection of eleven essays by British, US, & Russian scholars, explores such issues as emerging Russian women's organizations, new Ukrainian women's groups, the state of new women's studies, & the growth of youth gangs. Clements, Engel, & Worobec bring together articles from leading international scholars on such topics as: popular & church attitudes toward childbirth in pre-Petrine Russia; concepts of women's honor in early modern Russia; the position of widows in serf society; the role of traditional women folk healers in Russian peasant society; & women's role in the protoindustrial household. Elwood offers a political biography of Inessa Armand, V. I. Lenin's alleged mistress, showing how she contributed her considerable linguistic, political, & administrative talents to the Bolshevik cause. These five books constitute important contributions to new thinking on women in the former USSR. W. Howard

The meaning of equality -- Consciousness raised -- The limits of liberation -- The fight for equal rights in the Russian dumas and Finland -- The first all-Russian women's congress : the Women's Parliament (Zhenskii Parlament) -- "And who will tend the geese?" -- War, revolution, and victory? -- Twelve years of struggle

""Ruthchild argues that the women's movement in Russia, with its insistence on women's citizenship and suffrage, was integral to democratization efforts in Imperial Russia, and especially to the revolutions of 1917. Her book is deeply researched, carefully crafted, and beautifully written. By providing a gendered interpretation of Russian political history, by insisting on individual agency and biography, she has provided an astute work of historiography as well as a masterpiece of historical reconstruction."--Karen Offen, Stanford University" ""Equality and Revolution chronicles the fascinating story of the rise of feminism and suffrage in late tsarist Russia, showing us a society in upheaval over its core identity. Ruthchild has given us a page-turning account that brings an era and a movement to life, demonstrating how far the notion of democracy could go in a revolutionary epoch."--Elizabeth Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology" "On July 20, 1917, Russia became the first major power to grant women the right to vote and hold public office. But after the October Revolution and the establishment of the Soviet Union, those who had pioneered the suffragist cause were all but erased from accounts of Russian history. The women's movement, when mentioned at all, was portrayed as rooted in the elitist and bourgeois culture of the tsarist era, meaningless to proletarian and peasant women, and even counter to socialist ideology. In this highly original and historically revisionist study, Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild reveals that in fact Russian feminists appealed to all classes and were an integral force for revolution and social change. She profiles the individuals and organizations that were vital to the feminist struggle, particularly during the monumental uprisings of 1905-1917, and presents a significant reinterpretation of a decisive period of Russian--and world--history."--Jacket.

Kelly Hignett , Melanie Ilic, Dalia Leinarte, and Corina Snitar, Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, London: Routledge, 2018, xiii, 196 pp., $123.09 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-138-04692-4.Lisa Kirschenbaum, International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, xiii, 278 pp., $29.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-131-622690-2.