Russia's Women
Subtitle: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation
Contributors: Barbara Evans Clements (Editor); Barbara Alpern Engel (Editor); Christine D. Worobec (Editor)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 17, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780520070240
Subjects: Women's studies; Sociology; General; History: World; Russia; Soviet Union; Europe - General; Women's Studies - General; History / General; History; Social conditions; Women
First sentence: Traditional histories of Kievan Rus' (tenth to thirteenth centuries) and Muscovy (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries) are generally silent about women's roles except in those rare cases when a woman assumed a male position by acquiring political power of defying the law.