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Bolshevik Women

Bolshevik Women

by Barbara Evans Clements (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $33.77
Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 356
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 13 Aug 1997
ISBN 10: 0521599202
ISBN 13: 9780521599207
Book Overview: An informative look at the history of Bolshevik women in the early 1900s.

Media Reviews
'Barbara Evans Clements' provocative study of Bolshevik women adds a critically important, long-neglected dimension to our understanding of Bolshevism, the Russian revolutions, and the Stalin era. It is a thoroughly researched, compelling work of original scholarship.' Alexander Rabinowitch, University of Indiana
'A richly nuanced collective portrait of the female membership of the Bolshevik party. The book's vivid and engaging personal details are set against a textured background and gain resonance and depth from the careful quantitative work that Clements has carried out. The book captures all the complexities of radical women's lives. It represents an important contribution to both Soviet history and the history of European women.' Barbara Alpern Engel, University of Colorado
Clements's book is superbly written, based on a variety of archival materials--including some only recently opened to Western scholars....This prosopographic study of the Bolshevik women who joined the party before 1921 is an outstanding contribution to both the new social history and women's history. Choice
This richly textured monograph, which received a 1997 Heldt prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies, combines an historical overview of the Bolshevik movement both in the prerevolutionary underground and in power through the Stalin era, an analysis of data about its female adherents as a class, and biographical sketches of seven of them. Integrating a carefully researched synopsis with tantalizing insights into individual lives and fates, the book should appeal to both scholars and students. Bolshevik Women documents comprehensively that anatomy was, indeed, destiny for the women of the party. Mary Zirin, The Russian Review
the book is repelte with findings and incidents that illuminate events, provoke questions, and enrich scholars and students alike. Wendy Goldman, Slavic Review
Bolshevik Women offers a rewarding account of two generations of women who participated in the revolution and in the formation of Soviet-society. Robert Lanning, Science & Society
Clearly written, expertly researched, and very sensitive to sources and their potential problems, this book offers many new insights for specialists and general readers alike. it would make an outstanding choice as the repreentative work on the Russian revolutionary period for a general European history course or general history of women and gender, as well as a provocative and readable supplement for Russian history surveys. Diane P. Koenker, American Historical Review
This is the first time that so much information has been gathered in one place about both prominent and rank and file Bolshevik women. Clements is to be commended for her diligent detective work and dedication to her task. Rochelle Ruthchild, American Journal of Sociology
...Clements's most recent effort is a collective biography of Bolshevik women that draws on a data base containing 545 records. Clements marshals the data base to great effect when plotting the careers of the revolutionaries. Janet Hyer, Canadian Slavonic Papers
...Clements is to be commended for her extensive and effective use of archival sources, documents, memoirs, diaries, and autobiographies, as well as newspaper and journal accounts, in order to bring to life this remarkable story of radical women in the Russian and Soviet Empires. Marian J. Rubchak, The Historian
The study is written in a refreshing, straightforward style and is not overloaded with technical terms or footnotes. It addresses a large readership, which can profit from the book without much prior knowledge of Russian history... Edith Rogovin Frankel, Journal of Modern History