{"product_id":"soviet-women-everyday-lives-melanie-ilic-9780367352318","title":"Soviet Women - Everyday Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on an extensive reading of a broad range of women's accounts of their lives in the Soviet Union, this book focuses on many hidden aspects of Soviet women's everyday lives, thereby revealing a great deal about how the Soviet Union operated on a day-to-day basis and about the place of the individual within it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding testimony from both celebrated literary and cultural figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand from many ordinary people, and from both enthusiastic supporters of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eregime and dissidents, the book considers women's daily routines, attitudes and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebehaviours. It highlights some of the hidden inequalities of an ostensibly egalitarian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esociety, and considers many wider questions, including how extensive was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe 'reach' of the Soviet regime; how 'modern' was it; how far were there continuities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eafter 1917 between the new Bolshevik regime and Russia's imperial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epast; and how homogenous and how mobile was Soviet society?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melanie ILIC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367352311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367352318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2021","brand":"Melanie ILIC","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48742252609791,"sku":"9780367352318","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef8d973d-4864-4ac7-ae4f-50c6421022e7.jpg?v=1782444277","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/soviet-women-everyday-lives-melanie-ilic-9780367352318","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}