The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies) - Hardcover

Wood, Elizabeth A.

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ISBN 10: 0253333113 ISBN 13: 9780253333117

Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1997

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Book by Wood Elizabeth A

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" ... 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 Russian Review "Meticulously researched, impressively documented, and engrossingly written, [the] work is much more than an examination of the successes, tribulations, and obstacles experienced by the zhenotdely (Soviet women's sections)... contributes to a long-overdue reconception of the New Economic Policy" Choice " ... a well-organised, 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 the story of the zhenotdel in the context of the political struggles and institutional structures of this formative period of the Russian Revolution. Wood demonstrates clearly the dilemma of whether women party activists should serve the party or their constituents." --American Historical Review "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 "Wood enriches the existing tradition of women's history by focusing not only on the experience of real women's lives, but also on 'gender as an organising principle.' ... This book will be of particular interest to specialists in and students of the early Soviet state and gender studies." --H- Russia

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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 newly available archival materials, Elizabeth A. Wood explores the Bolshevik government's campaign to draw women into the public sphere and involve them in the world of politics in the early Soviet years. A central focus is the creation and activities of the zhenotdel, a special women's section within the Russian Communist Party whose mission was to appeal to women workers and enlist them in the revolutionary struggle. Making use of the prevailing Russian images of maleness and femaleness, Wood reconstructs how 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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• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0253333113
• ISBN 13: 9780253333117
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
• Herausgeber: Rabinowitch Alexander, Rosenberg William G.