The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilsm, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930 - Expanded EditionRichard 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 1870s, and leads to the social mobilization campaigns of the early Soviet period. |
Contents
| 3 | |
The Birth of the Woman Question | 29 |
3 | 57 |
The Feminist Response | 64 |
The Nihilist Response | 89 |
The Radical Response | 115 |
The New Generation | 157 |
The Feminist Movement | 191 |
126 | 259 |
vii | 266 |
Women against Women | 278 |
Bolshevik Liberation | 317 |
The Sexual Revolution | 346 |
The Revolution and Women | 392 |
Afterword to the 1990 Edition | 423 |
Appendix Note on Kollontais Social Bases of the Woman | 435 |
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