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Bek - The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor: A Siberian Memoir, 1869-1954 - 9780253217172 - V9780253217172
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The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor: A Siberian Memoir, 1869-1954

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Description for The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor: A Siberian Memoir, 1869-1954 Paperback. The story of an idealistic Russian woman doctor in pre- and post-revolutionary Siberia. Editor(s): Bek, Anna; Rassweiler, Anne D.; Lindenmeyr, Adele. Num Pages: 176 pages, 11 b&w photos, 1 maps, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 1FCS; BGA; JFSJ1; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 168 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.

The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor by Anna Bek (1869–1954) yields rich insights into the lives of a generation of Russian women who lived at a time of revolutionary change, extraordinary challenges, and unprecedented opportunities. Written in a lively and compelling style, Anna Bek's memoir reveals not only the experiences but also the motives and values of women who sought education, independence, and self-sufficiency, the obstacles they encountered, and the influences of other women and men on their lives. This engrossing memoir also engages the special context of Siberian geography and history—the vast distances and isolation, the heterogeneous population of settlers, exiles, and convicts, the closeness and interdependence of families and communities, and the deep appreciation of nature. This book offers a rewarding excursion into Siberian social history and an intimate acquaintance with two exceptional individuals of great charm and courage—Anna Bek and her American editor, Anne D. Rassweiler.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253217172
SKU
V9780253217172
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Bek
Anne D. Rassweiler (1933–2002) was author of The Generation of Power: The Planning and Construction of Dneprostroi, 1927–1932. Adele Lindenmeyr is Professor and Chair, Department of History, Villanova University, and author of Poverty Is Not a Vice: Charity, Society, and the State in Imperial Russia.

Reviews for The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor: A Siberian Memoir, 1869-1954
During the past few decades, an increasing number of memoirs and autobiographies of a wide range of individuals who lived in Russia and the Soviet Union have appeared in English translation. This memoir by a woman physician and educator whose life spanned the years before the 1917 Revolution and the Stalin era is a welcome addition to this literature. The author, Anna Zhukova Bek, grew up in an isolated mining village in Eastern Siberia where her father was the mine director. Anna excelled at her studies and was sent to a boarding school for girls in Irkutsk. After graduation, she studied medicine in France and St. Petersburg. During a year's exile for political activity in Siberia, she met her future husband (who also was considered politically unreliable by the tsarist authorities), and the couple worked there until the husband's death from typhus in 1915. After 1917, Anna became a well-respected professor at several Siberian universities, but her specialties (psychology and pedology) became politically suspect by the early 1930s, and she was forced to give up these positions. The editor's annotations and notes are very helpful and informative. Summing Up: Recommended. Public and general collections.October 2005
N. M. Brooks
New Mexico State University
The memoir's style is clear and the story is compelling. Furthermore, Rassweiler's introductions and annotations make the memoir usable for courses in Russian history, gender history, medical history, and general European history.July 2008
Michelle DenBeste
California State University Fresno

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