Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Women --- Russia --- History --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Employment --- Social conditions --- Women - Russia - History - 19th century. --- Women - Russia - History - 20th century. --- Women - Employment - Russia - History - 19th century. --- Women - Employment - Russia - History - 20th century. --- Women - Russia - Social conditions. --- FEMMES --- FAMILLES --- CONDITIONS SOCIALES --- RUSSIE --- 19E-20E SIECLES --- HISTOIRE

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Russia's Great Reforms of 1861 were sweeping social and legal changes that aimed to modernize the country. In the following decades, rapid industrialization and urbanization profoundly transformed Russia's social, economic, and cultural landscape. Barbara Alpern Engel explores the personal, cultural, and political consequences of these dramatic changes, focusing on their impact on intimate life and expectations and the resulting challenges to the traditional, patriarchal family order, the cornerstone of Russia's authoritarian political and religious regime. The widely perceived "marriage crisis" had far-reaching legal, institutional, and political ramifications. In Breaking the Ties That Bound, Engel draws on exceptionally rich archival documentation-in particular, on petitions for marital separation and the materials generated by the ensuing investigations-to explore changing notions of marital relations, domesticity, childrearing, and intimate life among ordinary men and women in imperial Russia.Engel illustrates with unparalleled vividness the human consequences of the marriage crisis. Her research reveals in myriad ways that the new and more individualistic values of the capitalist marketplace and commercial culture challenged traditional definitions of gender roles and encouraged the self-creation of new social identities. Engel captures the intimate experiences of women and men of the lower and middling classes in their own words, documenting instances not only of physical, mental, and emotional abuse but also of resistance and independence. These changes challenged Russia's rigid political order, forcing a range of state agents, up to and including those who spoke directly in the name of the tsar, to rethink traditional understandings of gender norms and family law. This remarkable social history is thus also a contribution to our understanding of the deepening political crisis of autocracy.

Family policy --- Women --- Divorce --- Marriage --- Families --- Families and state --- State and families --- Public welfare --- Social security --- Social policy --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Broken homes --- Divorced people --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Home --- Honeymoons --- History --- Family relationships --- Government policy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Daughters --- Intellectuals --- Mothers --- Radicalism --- Women --- History --- Political activity --- Russia --- Social conditions

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts. What are the challenges to be overcome? How can the often mono-structural estates be altered, and how can spatial and cultural identities be reinforced? Which role does the community play in these former socialist neighborhoods? The contributors to this volume present perspectives from different disciplines, both in academia and practice. The exchange of international experiences creates the base for further debate and learning and provides insight into the multiplicity of challenges and approaches today.

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. --- Architecture. --- City. --- Design. --- Eastern Europe. --- Large Housing Estate. --- Neighborhood Development. --- Society. --- Space. --- Sustainable Transformation. --- Urban Studies.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history and the striking changes that characterize its story. Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin show how Russia's peoples met the constant challenges posed by geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions, and rose to become the world's second largest land empire. The book describes the circumstances that led to the world's first communist society in 1917, and traces the global consequences of Russia's long confrontation with the United States, which took place vir

Cultural pluralism --- Social change --- History. --- Russia --- Soviet Union --- Russia (Federation) --- Relations.