Description: Further DetailsTitle: American Girls in Red RussiaCondition: NewEAN: 9780226256122ISBN: 9780226256122Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/25/2017Item Height: 23mmItem Length: 16mmLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Chasing the Soviet DreamDescription: If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or '30s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia Mickenberg uncovers in American Girls in Red Russia, there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though many more were curious about the "Soviet experiment." But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, sometimes by the mundane realities, others by ugly truths too horrifying to even contemplate.Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia, which appeared to be the very embodiment of modern ideas and ways of living. American women saw in Russia the hope for a new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Russian women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare. Yet as Mickenberg's sympathetic biography shows, Russia turned out to be as much a grim commune as a utopia of freedom, replete with many of the same economic and sexual inequities that the immigrants had hoped to escape.American Girls in Red Russia recounts the experiences of women who saved starving children from the Russian famine, worked on rural communes in Siberia, wrote for Moscow or New York newspapers, or performed on Soviet stages. Mickenberg finally tells these forgotten stories, full of hope and grave disappointments.Country/Region of Manufacture: USItem Width: 3mmItem Weight: 737gAuthor: Julia L. MickenbergGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: American Girls in Red Russia
Title: American Girls in Red Russia
EAN: 9780226256122
ISBN: 9780226256122
Release Date: 04/25/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: Chasing the Soviet Dream
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: American Girls in Red Russia : Chasing the Soviet Dream
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2017
Topic: Women, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, United States / 20th Century, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, General, Women's Studies, Political
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 25.7 Oz
Author: Julia L. Mickenberg
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
