The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilsm, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930 - Expanded Edition

by Richard Stites

Book Overview

Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all come to life in this absorbing and dramatic account. The author's history begins with the feminist, nihilist, and populist impulses of the 1860s and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691100586
• ISBN13: 9780691100586
• Release Date: February 1978
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"