Rural women in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia / Liubov Denisova ; edited and translated by Irina Mukhina.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Denisova, L. N.
Other Authors: Mukhina, Irina, 1979-
Format: Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Employment patterns among rural women
  • Unskilled labor in the countryside
  • Female mechanics and machines operators
  • Women at the animal wards
  • Women as collective farm leaders and agricultural specialists
  • Rural intelligentsia
  • Migration to cities and the position of newcomers
  • pt. 2. Private life
  • The politics of private life : the evolution and transformation of the Soviet Family Code
  • Marriages
  • Conflicts and divorces
  • Domostroi
  • Alcoholism in the countryside
  • The female face of the criminal world
  • Women of the oldest profession
  • Religion
  • Triple-burden lifestyle
  • Household chores
  • The special environment of the village life
  • Protection of childhood and motherhood in the countryside
  • Abortions.