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23%OFFJulia A. Mickenberg - American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream - 9780226256122 - V9780226256122
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American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream

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Description for American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream Hardcover. Num Pages: 432 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or '30s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia Mickenberg uncovers in American Girls in Red Russia, there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226256122
SKU
V9780226256122
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About Julia A. Mickenberg
Julia L. Mickenberg is associate professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States and co-editor of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature.

Reviews for American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream
In this well-researched and wonderfully written volume, readers will find a story that has long been overlooked.
Diplomatic History Julia Mickenberg's extensive research in US and Russian archives fills a significant gap in our knowledge of the roles played by US women in the Russian revolution and the Bolshevik and Stalinist regimes in the Soviet Union. This book is ... Read more

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