gender and politics in revolutionary Russia
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wood, Elizabeth A.
- Publish Year
- 1997
- Shelfmark
- USSR 6 1997 - B
- Thesaurus
- revoluties, communisme, crisissen, economie, vrouwenorganisaties, politieke partijen, Rusland, USSR, 20e eeuw
- Description
- 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 Communit Party, she 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.