Synthesizing several decades of scholarship by historians East
and West, Barbara Evans Clements traces the major developments in
the history of women in Russia and their impact on the history of
the nation. Sketching lived experiences across the centuries, she
demonstrates the key roles that women played in shaping Russia's
political, economic, social, and cultural development for over a
millennium. The story Clements tells is one of hardship and
endurance, but also one of achievement by women who, for example,
promoted the conversion to Christianity, governed estates, created
great art, rebelled against the government, established charities,
built the tanks that rolled into Berlin in 1945, and flew the
planes that strafed the retreating Wehrmacht. This daunting and
complex history is presented in an engaging survey that integrates
this scholarship into the field of Russian and post-Soviet
history.
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