Aino Saarinen - Women and Transformation in Russia

This book looks at Russian womens mobilization and agency during two periods of transformation, the turns of the 19th/20th century and the 20th/21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations, the writers focus on both the continuities and the breaks, highlighting the grassroots view and emphasizing the local factors. They also examine the international and transnational aspects of Russian womens agency of different spheres and different historical periods. The book raises new research questions, evaluating and comparing Soviet society and contemporary Russia in terms of gender and womens possibilities in society.

Aino Saarinen works on Russian and Eastern European issues at the Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Kirsti Ekonen is researching in Russian Studies at the Department of World Cultures at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Valentina Uspenskaia is Professor of Womens History and Gender Studies at the Tver State University, Russia.

1 Modernizing Muscovy
Reform and social change in seventeenth-century Russia
Edited by Jarmo Kotilaine and Marshall Poe

2 The USA in the Making of the USSR
The Washington conference, 192122, and uninvited Russia
Paul Dukes

3 Tiny Revolutions in Russia
Twentieth-century Soviet and Russian history in anecdotes
Bruce Adams

5 Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 192091
Soviet foreign policy, Turkey and communism
Blent Gkay

7 Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 19045
Secret operations on land and at sea
Evgeny Sergeev

8 Cossacks and the Russian Empire, 15981725
Manipulation, rebellion and expansion into Siberia
Christoph Witzenrath

9 The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II
Relics, remains and the Romanovs
Wendy Slater

10 Popular Religion in Russia
Double belief and the making of an academic myth
Stella Rock

15 The Baltic States from the Soviet Union to the European Union
Identity, discourse and power in the post-communist transition of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Richard Mole

16 Life Stories of Soviet Women
The interwar generation
Melanie Ilic

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Women and transformation in Russia / edited by Aino Saarinen,
Kirsti Ekonen and Valentina Uspenskaia.

pages ; cm. -- (Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern

Europe ; 18)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Feminism--Russia (Federation) I. Saarinen, Aino, editor of

compilation. II. Ekonen, Kirsti, editor of compilation. III. Uspenskaia, V.
I., editor of compilation. IV. Series: Routledge studies in the history of
Russia and Eastern Europe ; 18.

HQ1665.15.W65 2013
305.420947--dc23

2013021628

ISBN: 978-0-415-84131-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-76648-4 (ebk)

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AINO SAARINEN, KIRSTI EKONEN AND VALENTINA USPENSKAIA

IRINA IUKINA

KIRSTI EKONEN

VERA KULIK

VALENTINA USPENSKAIA

6 Solving the woman question: the case of zhenotdels in
Tver province

NATALIA KOZLOVA

ELENA ZDRAVOMYSLOVA

JULIE HEMMENT

NATALIA KUKARENKO

MERI KULMALA

AINO SAARINEN

JANET ELISE JOHNSON

Kirsti Ekonen is based at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki. Her book, in Russian, Creator, Subject, Woman ( Tvorets, subekt, zhenshchina ) is an analysis of identity, subjectivity and female authorship in Russian symbolist culture (published in Moscow in 2011 by NLO publishing house). Ekonen has also published several articles on Russian symbolism and womens writing. Her other research interests include RussianFinnish cultural relations and Russian literary history. She is the co-editor and one of the authors of the first history in Finnish of Russian literature (Gaudeamus, 2011). Ekonen is part of the FinnishRussian research project St. PetersburgHelsinki: Problems of Mutual Influence of Two European Capitals and is a member of the Centre of Excellence on Choices of Russias Modernization, based at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. She is now conducting research on the Russian new woman phenomenon at the turn of the twentieth century.

Julie Hemment is a British social anthropologist, presently Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focus is on post-socialist Russia, examinations of issues of gender, development, NGOs and civil society, along with forms of feminist, activist and collaborative actions. Her book Empowering Women in Russia: aid, NGOs and activism from Indiana University Press (2007) is based on a participatory-action research project with activists in provincial Tver in the vicinity of Moscow, where she participated in establishing the local crisis centre. She has published in, among others, Problems of Post-Communism, Signs and Anthropological Quarterly . In 2008, Hemment was Visiting Scholar at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki.