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Article: Bolshevik Women.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 1999
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Bolshevik Women. By Barbara Clements. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 338. $64.95.)
Subordination of women in the Russian Empire, together with its legacy of patriarchy and misogyny, continued into the Soviet era. This was reflected in written accounts of Bolshevik Party activity that tended to ignore the many contributions of female Bolsheviks (Bolshevichki) to the 1905 and 1917 revolutions. Apart from works on Alexandra Kollontai and Nadezhda Krupskaia, Western scholarship has largely mirrored this neglect of women's activism. In her detailed examination of the Bolshevichki, particularly the lives of two generations of their leaders, Clements ...