A Revolution Of Their Own

Voices Of Women In Soviet History

Barbara Engel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780429982255
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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

Index

1. Abortion, 4, 215
   1. back-alley, 33–34
   2. outlawed (1936), 9, 11, 50, 172–173
2. All-Union Radio, 147
3. Amenorrhea, 198
4. Antichrist, 19, 25–26
5. Apukhtin, Aleksei Nikolaevich, 54
6. Aragon, Louis, 48
7. Armand, Inessa, 69

1. Bednota, 31(n13), 35, 41
2. Berezhnaia, Antonina Aleksandrovna, 101, 102(photo), 107(photo), 227
   1. children, 105
   2. in children’s home, 5, 102–103, 105, 106, 114–115
   3. in CPSU, 103, 107, 108, 113
   4. education, 8, 103, 105, 106–107, 114–116
   5. as engineer, 103–104, 108–109
   6. grandchildren, 105
   7. in industrial labor force, 103, 104, 108
   8. inventions, 111
   9. in Komsomol, 103, 106
   10. landowning nobility background, 101, 102, 104–106, 113–114
   11. marriages, 105, 106
   12. in metallurgy industry, 103–104, 107–111
   13. mother and sisters, 116
   14. on Russia today, 113
3. Birth control, 34
4. Blue Blouse workers’ theater, 103, 106
5. Bolsheviks (Reds), 3–4, 5–6, 89–90, 124, 161, 162, 163
   1. attitudes toward, 20, 25
   2. and infant mortality, 66(n25)
   3. and landed nobility, 101–102
   4. and religion, 85
   5. and women’s emancipation, 2, 4, 49
   6. See also Communist Party of the Soviet Union
6. Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Ekaterina, 54
7. Brezhnev, Leo...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Glossary
• Introduction
• Living Someone Else’s Life
• Taking Advantage of New Opportunities
• Daughter of a Village Priest
• Overcoming an “Incorrect” Birth
• A Life in a Peasant Village
• From Peasant to Journalist
• Under a Sword of Damocles
• Four Years as a Frontline Physician
• Afterword: Evaluating the Soviet Experience
• On Choices, Methods, and Silences
• Selected Bibliography
• Index