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10%OFFElizabeth A. Wood - The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia - 9780253214300 - V9780253214300
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The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia

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Description for The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia Paperback. An original and sophisticated contribution to understanding the tangled issue of gender in Soviet Russia. Editor(s): Rabinowitch, Alexander; Rosenberg, William G. Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.

"Meticulously researched, impressively documented, and engrossingly written, . . . [it] contributes to a long-overdue reconception of the New Economic Policy (NEP). . . ." —Choice

" . . . a well-organized, sophisticated analysis of the difficulties involved in attempting to reconcile ideology with political, economic, and cultural realities.: —The Russian Review

" . . . a highly persuasive, revealing, and well-documented account of early Bolshevik policy, practice, and language pertaining to the 'baba problem' and the unexpected ways female and male comrades responded to the party-state's tutelary role toward women." —Slavic Review

"This is a rich and densely argued study that embeds ... Read more

"Wood's convincing work is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the gender-role traditionalism the Communists reinstitutionalized with their revolution." —The Women's Review of Books

How could the baba—traditionally, the "backward" Russian woman—be mobilized as a "comrade" in the construction of a new state and society? Drawing on recently opened archives, Elizabeth A. Wood explains why the Bolsheviks proved unable and ultimately unwilling to realize their ideological notions of a gender-neutral society. Focusing on the creation and activities of the zhenotdel, a special women's section within the Russian Communist Party, Wood reconstructs the ways in which notions of gender sameness and difference both facilitated and complicated Bolshevik efforts at state building during the Civil War and the New Economic Policy.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253214300
SKU
V9780253214300
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About Elizabeth A. Wood
Elizabeth A. Wood is Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Reviews for The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia
" ... a highly persuasive, revealing, and well-documented account of early Bolshevik policy, practice, and language pertaining to the 'baba problem' and the unexpected ways female and male comrades responded to the party-state's tutelary role toward women."
Slavic Review "... a well-organised, sophisticated analysis of the difficulties involved in attempting to reconcile ideology with political, economic, and cultural realities."
The ... Read more

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