Midwives of the Revolution: Female Bolsheviks and Women Workers in 1917 (Women's History)

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 7
CHAPTER ONE  Introduction......Page 9
CHAPTER TWO  The woman question before 1917: what was to be done?......Page 27
Service to the people......Page 28
Women and social revolution......Page 33
Organizing women workers......Page 39
The new woman......Page 46
Women and the 1905 Revolution......Page 51
From political reaction to world war......Page 56
Mothers and daughters of the Revolution......Page 60
Brides of the Revolution......Page 66
Bolshevik feminists......Page 75
Women in the Bolshevik Party in 1917......Page 80
Autocracy and the position of women......Page 95
Upper-class women and work......Page 101
Peasant women’s work......Page 108
Peasant women at work in the city......Page 114
Women’s response to the call to arms in 1914......Page 122
Women, work and war......Page 136
Women and protest before 1917......Page 146
CHAPTER SIX  Women and the 1917 Revolution in Petrograd......Page 152
Women and the overthrow of tsarism......Page 155
What did the women want now?......Page 164
Organizing women workers after the February Revolution......Page 172
Women, war and revolution......Page 186
Women and the October Revolution......Page 191
CHAPTER SEVEN  Conclusion......Page 196
Women outside of Petrograd......Page 197
Women and the 1917 Revolution......Page 203
Notes......Page 211
Select Bibliography......Page 235
Index......Page 239