The Baba and the Comrade - Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia

Focusing on the creation and activities of the zhenotdel, a special women's section within the Russian Communist Party, Wood reconstructs the ways in which notions of gender sameness and difference both facilitated and complicated Bolshevik efforts at state building during the Civil War and the New Economic Policy.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. The Woman Question

1. The Bolsheviks and the Genealogy of the Woman Question

II. Gender in the Context of State-Making and Civil War

2. Sharp Eyes and Tender Hearts: Passing New Legislation and Fighting the Civil War

3. Identity and Organization: Creating the Women's Sections of the Communist Party

4. War Communism at Its Height: Lobbying on Behalf of Women Workers

III. The New Threat to the Social Contract

5. The Liquidation Crisis in Zhenotdel Politics

6. The Crisis in Economics: The Social Contract Endangered

7. The New Threat: Zhenotdel Criticisms of the Social Costs of NEP

8. Daily Life and Gender Transformation

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Elizabeth A. Wood is Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Summary

An original and sophisticated contribution to understanding the tangled issue of gender in Soviet Russia.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth A. Wood, Wood Elizabeth a
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2000
• EAN: 9780253214300
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21430-0
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 533 g
• Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Rus; Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies; Indiana-Michigan Series in Rus; Indiana-Michigan Russian and E; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories