232 Pages
by
Routledge
This book focuses exclusively on women in Soviet dissident movements and their contributions to calling for change in the Soviet Union from the 1960s until the regime’s collapse in 1991.
Through compelling case studies, vivid snapshots and detailed individual profiles, this book explores women’s public activism as well as their less frequently discussed supportive roles that underpinned and... Read more
1. Introduction: Women in the Soviet Dissident Movements 2. Four Momentous Events 3. Modest and Naïve Contributions 4. Monitoring Group and Dissident Profiles 5. Refusenitsa 6. Marital Bonds 7. Family Matters 8. ‘Feminist’ Dissent 9. Afterwords
Biography
Melanie Ilic is Professor Emerita (Soviet History) at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She has published widely in the area of Soviet women’s history and the history of Soviet repressions. She has served as a consultant on a number of international research projects. She is the author of Life Stories of Soviet Women: the Interwar Generation (Routledge, 2013) and Soviet Women – Everyday Lives (Routledge, 2020).
