Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929

by Eliot Borenstein

In Men without Women Eliot Borenstein examines the literature of the early Soviet period to shed new light on the iconic Russian concept of comradeship. By analyzing a variety of Russian writers who span the ideological spectrum, Borenstein provides an illuminating reading of the construction of masculinity in Soviet culture. In each example he identifies the replacement of blood ties with ideology and the creation of a social order in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325926
• ISBN13: 9780822325925
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"