1st Edition

Women in Russian History From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century

Edited By Eve Levin, Natalia Pushkareva Copyright 1997
336 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

As the first survey of the history of women in Russia to be published in any language, this book is itself an historic event -- the result of the collaboration of the leading Russian and American specialists on Russian women's history. The book is divided in to four chronological parts corresponding to eras of Russian history: (I) Kievan/Mongol (10th - 15th centuries); (II) Muscovite ( 16th - 17th... Read more
List of Illustrations, Author's and Translator's Preface, Introduction, Chapter 1. Warriors, Regents, and Scholars: The Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries, Chapter 2. The Terem and Beyond: Women in Muscovy, Chapter 3. Empresses and Diarists: Women in the Enlightenment, Chapter 4. The New Women of the New Epoch: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Epilogue. Women in the Soviet Union and After: 1917 to the 1990s, Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index

Biography

Natalia Pushkareva, Eve Levin