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by Barbara Alpern Engel

Author:	Barbara Alpern Engel
Subcategory:	Historical
Language:	English
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (2004)
Pages:	304 pages
Category:	Biographies
Rating:	4.1
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Women in Russia, 1700-2000 is the first book to provide a lively and compelling chronological narrative of women's experiences from the 17th century to the present.

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Start by marking Women in Russia, as Want to Read . Barbara Alpern Engel’s Women in Russia is the most comprehensive collection of information on its eponymous topic and, over ten years after its publication, it has yet to be surpassed, or even equalled.

Start by marking Women in Russia, as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Based almost exclusively on secondary sources (including many of the author’s own works), it stands as a compilation of almost every social, political, and economy bit of history that is known about women in Russia between 1700 and 2000, making it unmatched in terms of breadth.

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Engel moves expertly from Imperial to Soviet to post-Soviet Russia. A splendid read from start to finish, Women in Russia, 17002000, is learned, vivid, and utterly absorbing.

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Original in its range and analysis, Women in Russia, 1700–2000 fills an enormous gap in the field. It is the first book to provide a lively and compelling chronological narrative of women’s experiences from the seventeenth century to the present. The book captures the diversity of women’s lives, detailing how women of various social strata were affected by and shaped historical change.

Barbara Alpern Engel. Advance Praise for Women in Russia, 1700-2000. Cambridge University Press. Book Format: Paperback.

This narrative of women's experiences from the seventeenth century to the present evokes the voices of individuals to enhance Barbara Alpern Engel's account of how women of various social strata were affected by, and in turn affected, historical change. The study's use of the female perspective provides an original way of interpreting Russia's past and important insights into the impact of gender on the ways that Russians defined themselves and others, as well as political change.

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Akinohn

A priceless resource for students of Russian Studies. This is my go to for Russian women as Engel does a masterful job of combining primary sources along with important historical context essential for the success of any student. You don't even need to be a student, it's just so fascinating..and she really makes history come alive :)

Androwyn

This book will give the reader a look at women and their role in Russian history.

Jia

Engel tackles a vast subject. It sprawls across three centuries of turmoil and revolution. Plus it spans a vast geographic area and a multitude of ethnicities and religions.
The care she has taken with this book starts in the very title, "Women in Russia". It does not say "Russian Women", for that can be taken to connote ethnic (Christian) Russian. Whereas she includes in her study Muslim women, Jewish women, the women of the Volga Germans, and Finnish women. Probably out of praticality, she omits discussion of the Russian Far East (Siberia), which has enclaves of Korean, Mongolian, Japanese and Chinese.
The later chapters that deal with Communist rule may owe much of their detail to the fall of Communism, and the subsequent accessibility of many documents. This may have been further eased by these documents undoubtedly being seen as having no military value. Unlike say a history of Soviet rocketry or microbiology.
I found the most interesting sections to be on the Communist period. They did put the first female astronaut (V. Tereshkova) into orbit, and proudly trumpeted this. But, as Engels makes clear, inside the Soviet Union, women were commonly relegated to traditional family rearing roles, not so different from the US at the time.
A very commendable survey by Engel. One that an interested reader might then wish for her to write more detailed analyses of the various aspects she discusses here.

Realistic

Engel¡¯s history of women in Russia is a fascinating glimpse at an otherwise overlooked part of Russian history. It is a great addition to any personal library.

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