{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-revolution-9780691019499","title":"In the Shadow of Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eAsked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government  Tatiana Varsher replied  \"With the wide-open eyes of a historian.\" Her countrywoman  Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia  expressed a similar need to take note: \"I want to write about the way those events were perceived and reflected in the humble and distant corner of Russia that was the Cossack town of Korenovskaia.\" What these women witnessed and experienced  and what they were moved to describe  is part of the extraordinary portrait of life in revolutionary Russia presented in this book. A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century  In the Shadow of Revolution brings together the testimony of Soviet citizens and migrs  intellectuals of aristocratic birth and Soviet milkmaids  housewives and engineers  Bolshevik activists and dedicated opponents of the Soviet regime. In literary memoirs  oral interviews  personal dossiers  public speeches  and letters to the editor  these women document their diverse experience of the upheavals that reshaped Russia in the first half of this century.  As is characteristic of twentieth-century Russian womens autobiographies  these life stories take their structure not so much from private events like childbirth or marriage as from great public events. Accordingly the collection is structured around the events these women see as touchstones: the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-20; the switch to the New Economic Policy in the 1920s and collectivization; and the Stalinist society of the 1930s  including the Great Terror. Edited by two preeminent historians of Russia and the Soviet Union  the volume includes introductions that investigate the social historical context of these womens lives as well as the structure of their autobiographical narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648046850101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691019495","price":27.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691019499.jpg?v=1781707696","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/in-the-shadow-of-revolution-9780691019499","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}