Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural, and political consequences of these dramatic changes, focusing on their impact on intimate life and expectations and the resulting challenges to the traditional, patriarchal family order, the cornerstone of Russia's authoritarian political and religious regime. The widely perceived "marriage...
Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industri...
A psychosocial study of the female intelligentsia in Russia which seeks to show how and why women radicals of the 19th century diverged from their male counterparts and to describe the forces that led women to rebel. It also discusses their legacy to future generations.
A psychosocial study of the female intelligentsia in Russia which seeks to show how and why women radicals of the 19th century diverged from their mal...
