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Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia
Racioppi, Linda; See, Katherine O'Sullivan
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Description for Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia
Paperback. Provides an introduction to the women's movement and women's organizations in Russia and shows how their ability to organize was constrained by social structures and state policies. This book focuses on the development of women's activism and the challenges for activists in a time of resurgent nationalism and turmoil over democratic reform. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
Through in-depth interviews with activists, the authors provide a broad and thorough introduction to the emerging women's movement and women's organizations in Russia. The focus is on the development of women's activism in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia and the challenges for activists in a time of resurgent nationalism and turmoil over democratic reform. Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See present a concise history of women's situation in tsarist Soviet Russia, which shows how their ability to organize was constrained by social strictures and state policies. They also analyze how the state-sponsored Soviet Women's Committee and new groups like the ... Read more
Through in-depth interviews with activists, the authors provide a broad and thorough introduction to the emerging women's movement and women's organizations in Russia. The focus is on the development of women's activism in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia and the challenges for activists in a time of resurgent nationalism and turmoil over democratic reform. Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See present a concise history of women's situation in tsarist Soviet Russia, which shows how their ability to organize was constrained by social strictures and state policies. They also analyze how the state-sponsored Soviet Women's Committee and new groups like the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566395212
SKU
V9781566395212
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About Racioppi, Linda; See, Katherine O'Sullivan
Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See teach at James Madison College, Michigan State University. Racioppi is the author of Soviet Policy towards South Asia since 1970, and See is the author of First World Nationalisms: Class and Ethnic Politics in Northern Ireland and Quebec.
Reviews for Women's Activism in Contemporary Russia
"For the student of social movements in general and women's movements in particular, the value of this book is in the diversity of groups and activists studied and the richness of detail. The variety of activists, ideologies, and organizational origins is striking... Racioppi and O'Sullivan See have provided an important introduction to the study of Russian women's activism in the ... Read more