The Women of Izmaelovka: A Soviet Union Collective Farm in Siberia

by Albert Pleysier and Alexey Vinogradov

Book Overview

The Women of Izmaelovka documents the lives of seven women who are residents of a Siberian village located on the steppes of the Ural region. The village was turned into a collective farm in 1929. As the women reflect on their lives, they discuss significant events such as collectivization, Joseph Stalin's acts of repression, the Great Patriotic War, de-Stalinization, Nikita Khrushchev's agricultural programs, the Brezhnev years and the fall of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761836616
• ISBN13: 9780761836612
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.7"