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If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or '30s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia Mickenberg uncovers in 'American Girls in Red Russia', there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though many more were curious about the "Soviet experiment." But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, sometimes by the mundane realities, others by ugly truths too horrifying to even contemplate. Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia, which appeared to be the very embodiment of modern ideas and ways of living. American women saw in Russia the hope for a new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Russian women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare.… (más)
In retrospect, Russia in the 1930s was not the place to be. But from the Revolution to the purges there were thousands of westerners that made their way to the Soviet Union, many of them American women of all stripes.
Mickenberg’s American Girls in Red Russia covers many of these American women, from Isadora Duncan to Margaret Bourke-White to Sylvia Chen and many more of the great and the good, as they head to Russia chasing the utopian dream of a society that valued the equality of women. And before Stalin stepped in to destroy the ideals of the Revolution in an ocean of blood, many of these women found what they were looking for. Some however disappeared during the purges while others escaped by the skin of their teeth and a few swallowed their pride and parroted the party line. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For Edie, who has lived with this book her entire life. And for Dan, who made everything possible.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
By spring 1932, the "American girls in red Russia" had begun to attract notice:
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The only way to make people work is to lay down the inexorable law: no work, no eats.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
These days, as we try to distinguish refugees from terrorists and legitimate dissent from security threats, and as women continue to struggle with the same things they struggled with in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s (balancing a career and motherhood; working to attain equity with men in the economic, political and domestic spheres; finding a romantic relationship that is truly a partnership of equals), there is much to be learned - about desire, faith, human fallibility, and lost possibility - from the hopes and failures of yesteryear's new women, women for whom a "Russian chapter" once seemed as if it might rewrite the entire story.
If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or '30s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia Mickenberg uncovers in 'American Girls in Red Russia', there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though many more were curious about the "Soviet experiment." But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, sometimes by the mundane realities, others by ugly truths too horrifying to even contemplate. Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia, which appeared to be the very embodiment of modern ideas and ways of living. American women saw in Russia the hope for a new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Russian women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare.
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Mickenberg’s American Girls in Red Russia covers many of these American women, from Isadora Duncan to Margaret Bourke-White to Sylvia Chen and many more of the great and the good, as they head to Russia chasing the utopian dream of a society that valued the equality of women. And before Stalin stepped in to destroy the ideals of the Revolution in an ocean of blood, many of these women found what they were looking for. Some however disappeared during the purges while others escaped by the skin of their teeth and a few swallowed their pride and parroted the party line. (