Encyclopedia of Russian Women’s Movements

NORMA CORIGLIANO NOONAN is Professor of Political Science at Augsburg College. She is the co-editor with Wilma Rule of Russian Women in Politics and Society (Greenwood, 1996).CAROL NECHEMIAS is Associate Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Affairs at Pennsylvania State Harrisburg.

A comprehensive resource profiling individuals and organizations associated with Russian women's movements from the early 19th century to the post-Soviet era. Contributions by approximately fifty authors from the United States, Russia, Europe, and Canada focus upon the struggle of women to change their society and advance their gender interests. Women activists pursued improvement in educational opportunities, fought for suffrage, established journals, and sought to transform women's consciousness and establish women's studies programs and women's crises centers. They were a strong voice against the tsarist regime and the oppression of communism. Their objectives were as diverse as their strategies, which ranged from incremental reform, to terrorism, to the establishment of women's electoral organizations.This volume contains a comprehensive glossary of term and phrases and a chronology to help put events and developments into historical context. Entries are fully cross-referenced and are followed by suggested readings. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Russian history and politics, women's history and gender studies.

Chronology of Russian Women's Movement in Historical ContextIntroduction: Russian Women's Movements in the 19th and 20th CenturiesWomen's Movements for the 19th Century to the Revolutions of 1917Women's Movements in the Soviet Era, 1917-1991Women's Movements in the Transitional and Post-Soviet Eras, 1985GlossarySelected BibliographyIndex