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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise -- 1. Traditions of Patriarchy and the Missing Female Voice in Russian Folklore Scholarship -- 2. Age and Gender Status and Identity: Structure and History -- 3. Subjectivity and the Relational Self in Russian Village Women's Stories of Courtship and Marriage -- 4. The Pleasure, Power, and Nostalgia of Melodrama: Twentieth-Century Singing Traditions and Women's Identity Construction -- 5. Transgression as Communicative Act: Rural Women's Chastushki -- 6. Magical Forces and the Symbolic Resources of Motherhood -- 7. Magic, Control, and Social Roles -- 8. Constructing Identity in Stories of the Other World -- 9. Death, the Dead, and Memory-Keepers -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Russian women's movement and of the social, political, economic, historical, and international contexts that surround it. Valerie Sperling paints a vivid portrait of the women's movement's formation and development, paying particular attention to the key challenges facing a social movement in post-communist society, including the virtual absence of civil society, constant flux in political institutions, wrenching economic changes, and the movement's own status in a changing transnational environment. The author also addresses the specific challenges facing women's organizations by discussing societal attitudes towards feminism in Russia. Based on participant observation, primary source materials, and dozens of interviews conducted in Moscow (as well as two smaller Russian cities), the narrative brings alive the activists' struggle to build a social movement under difficult conditions, and sheds new light on the troubled and complex process of Russia's democratization

The present article analyses the role of the social economy in transitional Russia and its consequences for women. The changes in the economic system in the former Soviet Union and its effects is often analysed in general terms. One interesting aspect is whether the changes have similar effects on men and women. The aim here is to highlight how women's situation changes when the economic system changes and how Russian women adapt to these changes. Three types of activities which are carried out by women within the social economy are discussed below, where each of these activities are built on strategies for survival from the Soviet period: distribution of vital goods in rural areas, distribution of information to women and production of services. Although the social economy has a considerable gap to fill in Russia, this has not yet implied that the cooperative sector flourishes. Instead there is a danger that women go from paid work in the state sector to non‐paid work within the voluntary sector.

Review of the report on Labor conditions in soviet Russia prepared by the International labor office.